Chad Michael Murray was once so close to death, his family called in a priest to perform the last rites

Chad Michael Murray was once so close to death, his family called in a priest to perform the last rites.

The 43-year-old actor revealed he spent two months in hospital as a teenager when his intestines became twisted, which led to internal bleeding and Chad lost 50 per cent of his blood leaving him on his “deathbed”.

Speaking on the Great Company podcast, Chad said: “I was in hospital for two and a half months. It was a lot. [I was] in and out of consciousness.

“We had surgery. I had internal bleeding, I lost 50 per cent of my blood. I was on my deathbed.

“I just remember seeing my father, the weakest I’d ever seen him, and a priest at the end of my bed. They’re talking about last rites and all that stuff, and [the nurse, Sandy] gave me a blood transfusion to save my life. It saved my life.”

Chad didn’t reveal his exact diagnosis but explained he had to have a second surgery to “clean up” his internal organs.

He explained: “Regardless, you’re in there for two months and, you know, my organs shut down because you have blood all coagulated around them, and they had to wait till everything [healed more]. So, anyway, I had to have a second surgery to clean everything up.

“I went from, like, 180 to 118 pounds. I was a skeleton when I got out. I remember looking in the mirror the first time going, ‘Who is that?’ Like, I cried. I couldn’t believe that I was looking back at that guy.”