Clarkson's Farm star Jeremy Clarkson was 'days' away from death
Clarkson's Farm star Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he was "days" away from suffering a fatal heart attack and revealed scrolling on his phone inadvertently saved his life.
Jeremy Clarkson was "days" away from suffering a fatal heart attack and scrolling on his phone inadvertently saved his life.
The Clarkson's Farm star has opened up about the terrifying health scare in the new series of his hit Amazon Prime show - which features scenes of him in hospital - and in the first episode of season five Clarkson is shown explaining the drama to his farm manager Kaleb Cooper.
Clarkson is seen hugging his pal and saying: "I’m back and I’m not dead- the reaper will have to wait. It was f****** close though."
He went to add of his hospital dash: "I was scrolling on my phone. If I hadn’t been doing that I wouldn’t have got pins and needles in my arm and if I hadn’t got pins and needles, I wouldn’t have gone: 'Hang on, am I having a heart problem?' and wouldn’t have gone to hospital. They put me in this big polo mint [scanner] and they found out I have got really bad coronary heart problems."
Clarkson went on to explain: "So you’ve got arteries that feed your heart with blood to keep it pumping, one of them totally blocked, one of them looked like something dangling from the roof of a cave in the Peak District and one of them got so clogged up, it had to form what looked like branches, so my heart wasn’t getting any blood ... So I said [to the doctor]: 'How close was I to a heart attack?' And he went: 'Days'."
The former Top Gear presenter, 66, became very "poorly" in October 2024 and underwent life-saving heart surgery to have two stents fitted and he previously admitted he "had no idea" he had come to close to death as he was so busy filming the latest series of Clarkson's Farm and launching his pub The Farmer's Dog.
Asked if he realised he was at death's door, he told The Sun newspaper: “I had no idea, no idea at all. I just thought, ‘Well, I am working very hard’.
"But it was very tricky. The rest [of the series] is Oh, here he is farming and Kaleb and Charlie and Gerald and Lisa - all the usual suspects.
"Then suddenly, in the last two programmes, it just goes off like a bomb’. You can see me becoming more and more ill as the days go on, because I just lose my sense of humour, lose my ability to stay calm.
"I get in a proper old panic. I didn’t know at the time. I knew I wasn’t being me. I was trying to get the pub open for the August Bank Holiday weekend and, at the same time, doing the harvest on the farm. And it’s very well documented I ended up in hospital with a heart problem."
