Arnold Schwarzenegger shares story about heart surgery that nearly killed him
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Nathanred — 2 years ago(September 06, 2023 07:36 PM)
“I woke up and all of a sudden the doctors were in front of me saying, ‘I’m so sorry, but it was unlike what we planned,’” Schwarzenegger said. “[They said] we made a mistake and poked through the heart wall and had to open me up very quickly and to save [my] life. I was really freaking out.”
The faulty operation was a major setback for the action star who had to push through a tough physical recovery instead of training for “Terminator 6.”
“The bottom line is, you cannot roll the clock back,” he said. “It was a disaster. I was in the middle of a disaster. So now how do I get out of it? You have to shift gears. You collect yourself, shift gears and say, ‘OK, what I need to do now is I got to get out of this hospital.’”