DR. DRE SHARES HE HAD 3 STROKES DURING ANEURYSM IN 2021

March 17, 202400280

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Dr. Dre Opens Up Regarding Aneurysm

According to Billboard, Producer Dr. Dre is trending after revealing during a recent interview he suffered three strokes after having an aneurysm in 2021. He miraculously recovered from the incident. In February 2022 he made a historic return to the spotlight. Performing during the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show with Snoop Dogg, Mary J Blige, and 50 Cent. March 14th Dr. Dre opened up for the first time regarding his health crisis on James Cordon SiriusXM’s This Life of Mine.

Dr. Dre Speaks On Having 3 Strokes In Hospital

“It definitely makes you appreciate being alive, that’s for sure. It’s something you can’t control, it just happens. During those two weeks, I had three strokes,” he said before admitting that he didn’t act on the symptoms with urgency at first.

He continued: “I got up and went about my day. I thought I could lay down and take a nap. My son and a female friend were like, ‘No, we need to take you to the hospital.’ Next thing you know, I’m blacking out, I’m in and out of consciousness and I end up in the ICU.

“I was there for two weeks. I’m hearing doctors come in [and saying] ‘You don’t know how lucky you are.’ I asked questions about what I could’ve done to prevent this, but no one could give me an answer.”

Family Was By His Bed Side

Lastly, Hip Hop Dx highlights in a previous 2022 interview Dr. Dre revealed doctors thought he was going to die. He said the medical staff invited his loved ones to the hospital to say their final goodbyes as things looked fatal.

“I’m at Cedars Sinai hospital and they weren’t allowing anybody to come up, meaning visitors or family or anything like that, because of COVID, but they allowed my family to come in,” he began. “I found out later, they called them up so they could say their last goodbyes because they thought I was outta here.”

He added: “I didn’t know it was that serious, you know? Seeing my mom and my sister and everybody coming in the room. Nobody told me, I had no idea. That was crazy.”

He then described how doctors had to wake him up every hour to make sure his brain was functioning properly.

“So I’m in the ICU for two weeks,” he explained. “Because of what was going on in my brain, they had to wake me up every hour on the hour for two weeks to do these tests. Basically looking like sobriety tests, like touch your nose, rub your heel on your calf and all that shit.

“So every hour for two weeks, I had to wake up and do that. [I was] tired. As soon as they’d leave I would try to go to sleep because I knew they’d be coming back in the next hour.”

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