Bret Michaels performs during the kickoff of the Rock of Love Bus Tour at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas in January, 2009.Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Rocker-turned-reality star Bret Michaels has suffered a brain hemorrhage and is in critical condition at an undisclosed hospital, People magazine reported on Friday.
It quoted a source as saying the 47-year-old musician was rushed to hospital overnight with an excruciating headache, which doctors diagnosed as a massive subarachnoid hemorrhage, or bleeding at the base of his brain stem.
"[It]will be touch and go for the next few days while he is under intense observation," the source told People.
Representatives for Michaels were not immediately available to comment. Earlier this month, Michaels underwent an appendectomy. He also suffers from diabetes.
Michaels rose to fame in the 1980s at the helm of Poison, a glam-rock band whose hits included the ballad Every Rose Has Its Thorn.
In recent years, he reinvented himself as a reality TV star in such shows as VH1's Rock of Love and on the current season of The Celebrity Apprentice. He also just recorded a song with Disney starlet Miley Cyrus.