CBS News' correspondent Lara Logan 'renews contract' after battling health issues

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The 60 Minutes journalist has reportedly been hospitalized four times in the last year with digestive disease diverticulitis and internal bleeding
One friend said: 'Lara’s health has continued to suffer and she has been hospitalized numerous times in the years following the attack'
Logan, 44, was raped after covering the Arab Spring uprising in Cairo
Her professional credibility took a hit in 2013 over her heavily flawed Benghazi report

Published: 23:45 EST, 27 September 2015 | Updated: 00:58 EST, 28 September 2015

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Lara Logan has reportedly signed a new two-year contract with CBS News after battling health issues stemming from a brutal sexual assault in 2011.

Four times this year, the correspondent has been hospitalized with the digestive disease diverticulitis and internal bleeding as a result of the sex attack, according to the New York Post's Page Six.

A source told Page Six's Emily Smith: 'Lara’s health has continued to suffer and she has been hospitalized numerous times in the years following the attack in Egypt.

'She has to make some serious decisions if she should undergo surgery, and her health going forward, as she continues to pursue the work she loves.'

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CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan (pictured in 2013) has reportedly signed a new contract despite ongoing health issues

Logan, 44, was assaulted in Cairo’s Tahrir Square while she was covering the 'Arab Spring' celebrations following the ousting of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

Surrounded by at least 300 men, she was stripped, raped, nearly scalped, and beaten after being forcefully separated from her producer and bodyguard.

She later said: 'There was no doubt in my mind that I was in the process of dying... I thought not only am I going to die but it’s going to be just a torturous death that’s going to go on forever.'

Logan's attacking mob dragged her near a group of women, who stopped the attack by surrounding her, before Egyptian soldiers intervened.

According to Page Six, her friend Ed Butowsky told Breitbart News: 'Very few people know how stoic and incredibly tough this lady is...

'In spite of everything she’s had to face in the last two years, people have no idea the physical suffering she has been enduring due to the brutal sexual assault she encountered.'

He added: 'I’ve been in and around this business and people don’t understand how hard reporters work and how much time they put in.

'Lara, above all of it, has been doing it for four years since this brutal attack and suffering in every way, shape or form.'

Logan is pictured with well-wishers after making a speech at Boston College in April this year

Former swimwear model Logan, who is married with two children, has since returned to the Middle East, covering the persecution of Iraqi Christians by ISIS.

In a 2014 expose in New York Magazine, her original CBS News contract was said to be worth $1million per year. Her new salary has not been divulged and CBS declined to comment on the report of her contract being renewed.

No doubt her contract renewal will be questioned by some within the network.

In 2013 Logan was forced to apologize for a massively flawed report on the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

In it, security contractor Dylan Davies lied about his actions on the deadly night.

Logan reporting from Cairo on February 11, 2011 - the day she was assaulted by a mob

Logan, pictured reporting from Tahrir Square in 2011, later said she thought she was going to die

Logan and her 60 Minutes producer, Max McClellan, took leaves of absence afterwards. Logan returned after six months, a decision that reportedly rankled many at CBS, according to Salon magazine.

'She got everything she wanted, always, even when she was wrong, and that’s been going on since the beginning,' a former CBS News producer who worked with her told the magazine.

Others criticized her appetite for high risk that could put others, such as her crew, in danger.

However her former colleague Peter McHugh praised her bravery, saying in 2011: 'I have men who work for me who would not go where she went.'

Logan once said that women reporters 'are not adrenaline junkies you know, they're not glory hounds - they do it because they believe in being journalists'.