Dr. Dre, 59, had a brain aneurysm in 2021. Now the rapper and producer revealed that there were other bad consequences at the time. In an interview on SiriusXM’s “This Life of Mine with James Corden,” the hip-hop mogul said he had “three strokes” while in the hospital for the aneurysm.
Dre told host James Corden on the show about his time in the hospital: “It’s just something you can’t control, it just happens, and during those two weeks I had three strokes.” According to the rapper, his health problems began when he woke up with a strange feeling behind his right ear, which developed into “the worst pain” he’s ever had.
His son’s girlfriend insisted on taking him to the hospital, he said. In the emergency room he found out that it was “serious”. He kept fainting in the hospital and ended up in the intensive care unit. “I was there for two weeks. I heard the doctors say, ‘You don’t know how lucky you were.'”
He asked the doctors, said Dr. Dre continued on what he could have done to prevent the aneurysm: “No one could give me an answer. I had no idea I had high blood pressure or anything because I take care of my health. I lift weights, I run , I do everything I can to keep myself healthy.”
Dre said he wasn’t sure whether the illness had “significantly changed” his life, but something like that “definitely makes you appreciate being alive, that’s for sure.” The music star added: “It’s crazy knowing now that I had no control over it. It’s just something that can happen out of the blue.”
