When Dr. Dre was rushed to the hospital on Jan. 4, 2021, after struggling a mind aneurysm, he shortly assured followers that he was “doing nice.” It seems that the unique analysis was way more grim than even the legendary rapper and producer knew on the time.
Dre opened up in regards to the severity of his situation throughout an episode of the Exercise the Doubt podcast, admitting that ICU docs allowed his household to come back and say their goodbyes as a result of they didn’t suppose he would survive the aneurysm.
“They weren’t permitting anyone to come back up – which means guests or household or something like that – due to COVID,” he defined. “However they allowed my household to come back in [and] I came upon later, they referred to as them up so they might say their final goodbyes, as a result of they thought I used to be outta right here. I didn’t comprehend it was that severe … No one informed me. I had no concept. That was loopy.”
Dre’s two-week keep within the ICU got here with a grueling restoration course of. “Due to what was happening in my mind, they needed to wake me up each hour, on the hour, for 2 weeks to do these checks [that were] principally like sobriety checks – contact your nostril, rub your heel in your calf and all that shit,” he recalled.
Regardless of the exhaustion, he by no means feared any severe issues, not to mention loss of life. “I by no means felt like I used to be in hassle,” he stated. “I felt like, ‘OK, I’m simply going by way of [a] process, and I’m able to go house. I’m hungry.’ I didn’t eat for 2 weeks. That was a very loopy expertise.”
Dre was launched from the hospital on Jan. 15, 2021, and a 12 months later hit the Tremendous Bowl stage with Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar.
