Max George Reveals He Wrote a Will While In the Hospital, Feared He Wasn't Going to Make It
Max George is opening up about his time in the hospital for heart issues in December.
The 36-year-old singer revealed on Instagram last month that he was in the hospital for issues with his heart, and he later shared that he had surgery with a pacemaker put in. Last week, he returned to the hospital after a “flicking feeling” in his chest.
In a new interview, Max revealed he wrote his will lying in the hospital bed the first time he was there, and explained what all led to him going in to see a doctor.
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“I hadn’t been feeling myself for a few days, I started feeling a bit rough,” Max told The Sun. “I couldn’t put my finger on it. I was quite lethargic and stuff, struggling to get out of bed. But I didn’t think it was anything serious.”
“Luckily I’d gone around to my mum’s to stay and I woke up and I remember looking at my hands and they were blue, and my arms were a grey colour and I was freezing cold. I struggled to even sit up in bed,” he recalled.
Max shared he was able to go downstairs and found a blood pressure monitor and noted, “My blood pressure was pretty low and so was my pulse and I realised, ‘Something’s not right here.’”
“As I did that my mum came through the door and she gasped. She said, ‘What’s wrong? You’re blue. I need to ring the doctor now.’”
His mom then drove him to the doctor, but after meeting, was sent home. Max‘s mother called a doctor friend, who urged them to go to the ER.
“At this point I had a panicky feeling, but was also just absolutely knackered,” Max shared. “I couldn’t move my arms and the worst feeling was I felt like my throat was closing up. It felt like someone had their hands around my neck. Thank God I stayed at Mum’s house — she saved my life.,”
The singer was told the doctors thought he needed a pacemaker as “there’s something not right with the bottom part of you heart. For some reason the rhythm is way off and the signal doesn’t seem to be getting from the top chamber of your heart to the bottom part, the bit that pumps the blood around your body.’ I was in complete shock.”
“It was really scary, all sorts is going on in your head, and certainly not a place I thought I’d be in at 36,” Max shared. “I was awake all night, feeling a closing in my throat, I was really struggling to move and had really deep, slow breaths. There was nothing that they could do to stop that. I could have lived maybe a few weeks, maybe a few months, but it could have been a few hours. We didn’t know.”
“I could have only lived like that being in the state that I was in. I would have been bed-bound. I couldn’t walk.”
He revealed he was the youngest person in the cardiology ward and feared he would die, so he wrote instructions on his phone what to do with his assets if something should happen to him.
“That first night I wrote a will, I thought I was going to die,” he said. “If I could go from being absolutely on top of the world to being told ‘the bottom part of your heart isn’t working’, I kept thinking in my head, ‘Well, what if the top half stops working overnight?’”
Just a few days ago, Max was spotted stepping out in Manchester, seemingly picking up some medication and a candle.