Speaking openly about his health struggles, Dr. Dre revealed that he underwent treatment for a brain aneurysm years ago. In 2021, he was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for two weeks. The music mogul has now admitted that he suffered three strokes at the time.
Dre spoke about his difficulties during an interview on SiriusXM’s This Life of Mine with James Corden. “I just woke up and I felt something right behind my right ear,” he said.
He also added, “Worst pain I ever felt. And I got up and I went on about my day and I thought that I could just lay down and take a nap. My son had a female friend that was there. [She was] like, ‘No, we need to take you to the hospital.’ So they took me to urgent care. And I got to urgent care and they’re like, ‘No this is serious’.”
“Next thing you know I’m blacking out. I’m in and out of consciousness and I end up in the ICU,” he stated, adding that during his two-week stay, he heard doctors come in and say, “You don’t know how lucky you are.”
Dre, whose real name is Andre Romell Young, suffered up to three strokes in a two-week period. At the time, he asked his doctors what he might have done to avoid this. “I had no idea that I had high blood pressure or anything like that,” he said.
Dre added that to keep in shape before the medical emergency, he would regularly lift weights and go for a run. “I said, ‘Would that have prevented it, if I had worked out a little bit harder or ate different or something like that?’”
Doctors informed him that high blood pressure was genetic. “They call it the silent killer,” Dre said.
“It definitely makes you appreciate being alive, that’s for sure, when you go through that situation,” he stated about his struggle. “It’s crazy. Especially when I was on my way home from the hospital because, possibly, that couldn’t have happened.”
“Now knowing I had no control over that, it’s just something that could happen out of the blue. You wake up and go, ‘S—. OK, I’m here.’… Isn’t that the weirdest thing?” he admitted. “It’s just something you can’t control.”
