The actor described a blood clot in his brain as 'a ticking bomb'
Breaking his silence to the Daily Mail, he said he spent five days in a London hospital after suffering a Transient Ischaemic Attack – known as a mini stroke – due to a blood clot in his brain."My mum called me and I just couldn't get my words out. I started walking around my house looking at things and I could think what the word was, like television or fridge, but I couldn't say it. I called 111 on my mum's advice and they sent an ambulance for me, it was so scary.
"I felt stupid because I knew exactly what I wanted to say to the doctors, but I couldn't get the words out, I was speaking like a toddler, I was really embarrassed."Speaking to the Mirror, he added: “The doctors said they saw some damage to the lefthand side of my brain which is where your cognitive abilities are controlled from.
“What’s scary is if I hadn’t have called 111 when I did and got to hospital so quickly I don’t know if that clot could have travelled to the wrong place in my brain, I could have died.
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