“Exactly. I thought it had to be worse. It hurt— my arms hurt— but you’ve seen people, mostly men, on TV get a heart attack, they grab their chest, they fall down, right? I thought to myself, 'This can’t be a heart attack.' Because a heart attack would, like, knock me out. Yolanda King, Martin Luther King’s daughter, had the same heart attack on her fiftieth birthday, which is when I had mine, and she was dead before she hit the floor. I’m very lucky. It’s called the widow- maker. I had 100% blockage of my LAD. That’s one of the three main arteries that carries most of the blood to all your body.”
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