TMZ Obtained New Details About Kyle Busch's Condition

In the hours since Kyle Busch passed away, fans have been trying everything to figure out what happened to the 41-year-old NASCAR star. Some new audio clips from TMZ might shed some light on the hours leading up to his death.

In a video shared on Friday, TMZ released audio from a 9-1-1 call with a caller saying that Busch was struggling to breath, dealing with a very high temperature and coughing up blood. The caller didn't identity himself but name but said he was calling from the General Motors Charlotte Technical Center.

"I've got an individual with shortness of breath, very hot... coughing up some blood," the unspecified caller said to the 9-1-1 dispatcher. "He is awake. He's on the bathroom floor right now..."

Fans putting pieces together

NASCAR fans started deducing what Busch might have suffered from, while others admonished both TMZ for releasing the call and the caller for some of his behavior during the call.

"Still points to several possible causes from pulmonary embolism, sepsis, tuberculosis, pneumonia, all the way to heart failure and several more. Whatever happened seemed to have happened very quickly. I'm still in shock. That morning after that leads to confirmation, ughh!" one user remarked.

"Nah delete this, this shouldn't be released to the public… TMZ are actually such rodents," wrote another.

"Caller more concerned about hiding the facts," a third wrote.

TMZ has always gone above and beyond to be the first to break news, so them finding and releasing that 9-1-1 audio really shouldn't be a surprise.

As for the caller, it's hard to know what's going through someone's mind when someone is having a medical issue. So it's too early to be too hard on the person for how they acted over the phone.

As far as the medical condition that led to Busch's death, we'll probably get an answer to that in the weeks to come once things have settled for his family. In the meantime, all we can do is speculate on incomplete information.

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This story was originally published May 22, 2026 at 1:17 PM.