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American rapper and music producer, Dr. Dre, has revealed that when he faced his health scare and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) last January, doctors welcomed in his family because they feared he would die from the incident.
He pointed out that the doctors brought in his family “so they could say their last goodbyes”.
The rapper faced his health scare at the start of last year when on January 4, he was admitted to the ICU at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles.
In a recent appearance on Dolvett Quince’s Workout the Doubt podcast, the music producer shared a few details about his two-week experience in the ICU.
Dr. Dre assured fans a day later that he was “doing great”, however he would stay in the ICU for two weeks.
According to him, doctors thought he was going to die after he had a brain aneurysm in 2021.
Dr. Dre received support from colleagues like Ice Cube and Ice-T.
In an interview, Dr. Dre said “They weren’t allowing anybody to come up – meaning visitors or family or anything like that – because of COVID,” Dre told host Dolvett Quince.
“But they allowed my family to come in [and] I found out later, they called them up so they could say their last goodbyes because they thought I was outta here. I didn’t know it was that serious… Nobody told me, I had no idea. That was crazy.”
Dr. Dre went on to speak about the hourly procedures involved in his recovery, where “because of what was going on in my brain, they had to wake me up every hour, on the hour, for two weeks to do these tests that were basically like sobriety tests – touch your nose, rub your heel on your calf and all that shit.”
Though he admitted to feeling incredibly tired throughout his ICU stint – “as soon as the doctors would leave, I would try to go to sleep because I knew they were coming back in the next hour”.
Dr. Dre explained that he never worried about the potential of any serious complications, let alone death.
He said: “I never felt like I was in trouble. I felt like, OK, I’m just going through a procedure, and I’m ready to go home. I’m hungry. I didn’t eat for two weeks. That was a really crazy experience.”
Dr. Dre was released from hospital by January 15 last year, and was spotted in the studio just a few days later.
Within a month, Dr. Dre had turned his experience into the basis for a new song.
His first live performance since he suffered the aneurysm came in February of this year, where he appeared alongside Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent and Anderson, for this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show.
While he was in hospital, Dr. Dre’s house was targeted by burglars, leading to four people being arrested after they set off his infrared cameras.
Meanwhile, Dr. Dre received support from colleagues like Ice Cube and Ice-T.
The rapper opened up about his treatment last June, saying in an interview that the aneurysm itself was “a really weird thing” because he’d never experienced any contributing symptoms.
He said: “I’ve never had high blood pressure And I’ve always been a person that has always taken care of my health. But there’s something that happens for some reason with black men and high blood pressure, and I never saw that coming. But I’m taking care of myself.”