Jeremy Clarkson was close to suffering a heart attack when he felt pins and needles in his arm.
The UK broadcaster and TV personality said he survived the close-shave thanks to scrolling on his phone, and stated if it wasn't for this he wouldn’t have noticed the signs.
“I was scrolling on my phone. If I hadn’t been doing that I wouldn’t have got pins and needles in my arm and if I hadn’t got pins and needles, I wouldn’t have gone: ‘Hang on, am I having a heart problem?’ and wouldn’t have gone to hospital. They put me in this big polo mint [scanner] and they found out I have got really bad coronary heart problems.”
In the season five opener of Clarkson’s Farm, Clarkson was shown discussing the health scare with his farm manager Kaleb Cooper.
Clarkson explained that the problems came from unhealthy arteries, which were blocked and prevented blood from getting to his heart.
“So you’ve got arteries that feed your heart with blood to keep it pumping, one of them totally blocked, one of them looked like something dangling from the roof of a cave in the Peak District and one of them got so clogged up, it had to form what looked like branches, so my heart wasn’t getting any blood ... So I said [to the doctor]: ‘How close was I to a heart attack?’ And he went: ‘Days’.”
He told the Sun that he didn’t recognise what he was dealing with.
“I had no idea, no idea at all. I just thought, ‘Well, I am working very hard.’”
The outlet reported that Clarkson noticed a change in his behaviour towards the end of the latest Clarkson’s Farm season, with the former Top Gear host saying “You can see me becoming more and more ill as the days go on, because I just lose my sense of humour, lose my ability to stay calm.
“I get in a proper old panic. I didn’t know at the time. I knew I wasn’t being me. I was trying to get the pub open for the August Bank Holiday weekend and, at the same time, doing the harvest on the farm. And it’s very well documented I ended up in hospital with a heart problem.”
Clarkson underwent life-saving heart surgery to amend the problems.
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