Dr Dre has opened up over suffering a ‘serious’ brain aneurysm three years ago which saw him experiencing three strokes in just two weeks.
The rapper was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles in January 2021 after he woke up with a small but scary symptom. Dre spoke to SiriusXM on This Life of Mine With James Corden last week about what happened before he was told he had suffered a brain aneurysm. The star, real name Andrew Romelle Young, says it was his son’s friend who urged him to seek medical help and perhaps saved his life.
Dre rushed to hospital for brain aneurysm
At the time, Dre explains he woke up with a feeling behind his right ear that became the “worst pain he ever felt”.
He thought he’d continue as he was and rest, but was begged by his son’s friend to go to the hospital instead.
The 59-year-old said: “I got up and I went on about my day, and I thought that I could just lay down and take a nap.
“My son had a female friend that was there and was like, ‘No, we need to take you to the hospital.’ So they took me to urgent care.”
When they arrived, the music star was told his condition was “serious”, and he was rushed to intensive care.
The celebrity added: “Next thing you know, I’m blacking out. I’m in and out of consciousness, and I ended up in the ICU.
“I was there for two weeks. I’m hearing the doctors coming in and saying, ‘You don’t know how lucky you are.’”
He also told James: “It’s just something that you can’t control that just happens, and during those two weeks I had three strokes.”
He was doing ‘everything’ he could to be healthy
Dre added he was living a healthy life in the lead up of his brain aneurysm and didn’t understand why it happened.
But when he asked doctors why his health scare happened, they couldn’t give him an answer.
He explained: “I had no idea that I had high blood pressure or anything like that because I’m on my health s**t. I’m lifting weights, I’m running, I’m doing everything that I can to keep myself healthy.
“I said, ‘Would that have prevented it if I had worked out a little bit harder or ate different or something like that?’ It’s like, no, it’s hereditary. High blood pressure in Black men, that’s just what it is. They call it the silent killer.
“You just have no idea, so you know, you have to keep your s**t checked.”
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