Pinkis on the road to recovery after she and her son contracted the novel COVID-19. In a preview of one of her first somewhat public appearances since the beginning of the pandemic, the star shares the harrowing details of her illness and how she and her 3-year-old son, Jameson, survived one of the "scariest" chapters of their lives.
The singer tells The Ellen DeGeneres Show the illness struck their home in mid-March, just as the coronavirus began to shut down schools and other public spaces.
She explains, "At a certain point around March 18, March 19, March 20, when his fever was staying and going up. I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't breath." Her breathing became so difficult, she required the use of a nebulizer—a medical.