Arnold Schwarzenegger has discussed his experience of waking up from having emergency open-heart surgery. The actor, 72, said that he had to undergo the procedure four months before he was due to start filming for Terminator: Dark Fate.
During an online graduation speech recorded for media company ATTN:, he said that doctors had originally intended to repair one of his heart valves but ended up having to do open-heart surgery because of complications. “I woke up 16 hours later instead of four hours and there was a tube sticking out of my mouth,” he said. “Something went wrong during this non-invasive surgery and then it became invasive. “They said that they broke through the heart wall and there was internal bleeding and I could have died