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Dr. Dre looks back on his 2021 brain aneurysm.
In an interview in SiriusXM’s This Life of Mine with James Corden, The hip-hop music mogul recalled suffering “three strokes” while in the hospital for his brain aneurysm in 2021.
At the time of his hospitalization, he said The Hollywood Reporter in a statement: “I am doing very well and receiving excellent care from my medical team. I’ll be out of the hospital and back home soon. Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars.”
Reflecting on the terrifying experience, Dre revealed to Corden: “It’s something you can’t control and it just happens and during those two weeks, I had three strokes.”
Detailing what initially landed him in the hospital, Dre recalled that he woke up with a sensation behind his right ear that turned into “the worst pain.”
“I got up and went about my day, and I thought I could just lie down and take a nap. My son had a friend who was there and she said, ‘No, we have to take you to the hospital,’” she said. “So they took me to urgent care.” They soon told him it was “serious.”
“Next thing you know, I’m passing out. I go in and pass out and end up in the ICU. I was there for two weeks. I hear the doctors come in and say, ‘You don’t know how lucky you are.'”
After asking doctors what he could have done to prevent the aneurysm, Dre said, “No one could give me an answer. I had no idea I had high blood pressure or anything like that because I’m worried about my health. “I lift weights, I run, and I do everything I can to stay healthy.”
“High blood pressure in black men, that’s exactly what it is. They call it the silent killer,” he continued. “You just have no idea, so you know, you gotta get your shit together.”
Although he’s not sure if the health scare made a “significant change” in his life, Dre said the ordeal “definitely makes you appreciate being alive, that’s for sure.”
“It’s crazy, so now I know I had no control over it. It’s just something that could happen out of nowhere. You wake up and say, ‘Shit.’ Okay, I’m here.'”
Dre has been candid about his experience before and told Dolvett Quince Train doubt podcast in 2022 that doctors thought he might die.
“I’m at Cedars-Sinai Hospital and they weren’t letting anyone in, meaning visitors or family or anything like that, because of COVID, but they allowed my family in. I found out later, they called them. “I got up so they could say goodbye one last time because they thought I was leaving here,” she recalled.
Part of his treatment included having to wake him up every hour for tests, which left him exhausted. “I didn’t eat for two weeks” and “as soon as they left, I would try to go to sleep,” he said.
After being transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on January 4, 2021, Dre was finally released on January 16.