Jeremy Clarkson has spoken for the first time after being rushed to Oxford hospital for emergency heart surgery.
The former Top Gear presenter has opened up about his experience and the lifestyle advice he received from doctors after his health “suddenly deteriorated” and he underwent heart surgery.
The 64-year-old previously wrote in a column for the Sunday Times that he appeared to have difficulty using the stairs after swimming in the Indian Ocean while on holiday, and when he returned home he “started to feel very unwell”. He said he meant it. .
He was taken by ambulance to John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington, where he underwent an electrocardiogram (ECG), blood tests and X-rays, which ruled out a heart attack.
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Mr Clarkson, from Chadlington-based Diddley Squat Farm, said he went to the “operating room” after further tests, but doctors said he would probably not become seriously ill for “a few more days”. .
Yesterday (October 25), he spoke out for the first time since his surgery in a column for The Sun newspaper, saying: “What’s scary is what happens next. It’s the advice on how you should live your life from now on.” he said.
After doctors advised him to make a number of lifestyle changes, he said he was “not allowed to enjoy any more” and said his new “regime” was “horrifying”.
“But the biggest problem is diet. To lower your alarmingly high cholesterol levels, you need to completely cut out all your favorite foods,” he says.
In August, Mr Clarkson opened a pub called The Farmer’s Dog in Astal, near Burford, close to his home near Chipping Norton.
“I run a brewery and a pub, and I also have a butcher counter in the store. It’s delicious,” he said.
“Except now, I can’t get high on just my stuff anymore.”
In the column, he said he “always knew” that his lifestyle, which had “lived in a blizzard of hangovers and jet lag for 30 years” and started smoking at age 14, would not cause him to live to be 112. he admitted. But he added that he “didn’t really care.”
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Clarkson, who has 10 jobs and makes Elon Musk look “lazy”, said doctors have told him he “has to quit” many jobs.
“If I didn’t work, I’d be sitting at home rotting all day,” he said.
The TV presenter was fitted with a stent which could save his life and prevent future heart attacks by improving blood flow to his heart. It took about 2 hours to install.
The motoring journalist previously said: “There was no particular pain.” It’s just weird,” he said, adding that he thought it was “close, close.”
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