NEW YORK — Days after “Death Becomes Her” was nearly shut out at the 2025 Tony Awards, star Megan Hilty has announced a medical leave of absence from the hit Broadway musical.

The 44-year-old performer, who received a Tony nomination for her leading role as Madeline Ashton in the stage adaptation of the 1992 camp classic, shared the devastating news on social media.

“Madeline Ashton is by far the most challenging and rewarding role I have ever taken on,” she wrote on Instagram. “The lengths to which I have gone to make sure I can physically do the show is a job in itself — the regimen is too long for this post — but I do it joyfully because … I LOVE what I do.”

Despite the “painful” decision, Hilty said she’d need to step away from the production for three to four weeks to “recover from a vocal injury that only time can heal.”

A Broadway veteran whose credits include “Wicked” and “9 to 5,” Hilty noted that belting out the show’s songs eight times a week with “teeny tiny vocal cords is nothing short of a Herculean task.”

“We are athletes,” she continued. “And just like a professional basketball player, we are going to get injured from time to time — not because we aren’t good at our jobs, it simply comes with the territory because of the extraordinary demands we put on our bodies.”

Hilty delivered a knockout performance of “For the Gaze” — a double-entendre-filled showstopper with multiple costume changes — at Sunday’s Tony Awards.

Nominated for a total of 10 awards, the Christopher Gattelli-helmed production only garnered the prize for Best Costume Design, which went to recent Oscar winner Paul Tazewell.

Also starring Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber, Taurean Everett and Grammy winner Michelle Williams, “Death Becomes Her” opened to critical acclaim and robust crowds at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre last November.

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