Susan Lucci Recalls Near Fatal Heart Attack Felt ‘Like An Elephant’ On Her Chest (Exclusive)

Susan Lucci reflected connected what it was similar erstwhile she suffered from a bosom onslaught successful 2018 successful an EXCLUSIVE interrogation with HollywoodLife at the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women Red Dress Collection Concert connected Wednesday, February 1. The actress, 76, said that she wanted to see her “Empower Your Heart” jewelry enactment arsenic a mode of “saying convey you to the American Heart Association,” aft her ain acquisition with a bosom attack.

Susan stunned successful an off-shoulder formal astatine the reddish carpet event. (Shutterstock)

The All My Children star revealed that she got tested aft learning proceeding an interrogation wherever a pistillate said that the symptoms that women acquisition during a bosom onslaught are antithetic from men’s. “I avoided a near-fatal bosom attack,” Susan told HollywoodLife.  “I besides was precise fortunate to person radical getting maine to the infirmary close away.”

Susan opened up astir precisely what the symptoms she experienced were, and luckily the doc was capable to run quickly. “At that hospital, a wonderful, fantastic cardiologist fto maine cognize that I had a 90% blockage successful my main artery and a 75% blockage successful the adjacent,” she said. “I had nary thought but that I felt similar an elephant pressing connected my chest. And helium enactment 2 stents successful that night. And I was released the adjacent day.”

Susan dazzles successful pinkish astatine the 2022 Daytime Emmys. (Shutterstock)

Thankfully, the mother of two was capable to recover, but the healthcare providers besides told Susan that the bosom onslaught she experienced was a “widowmaker,” and she whitethorn not person survived if she didn’t enactment arsenic rapidly arsenic she had. “I was told by the nurses had I not travel in, [they were] precise definite that I wasn’t going to aftermath up if I had conscionable gone home,” she revealed.

Susan teamed up with the jewelry marque Tiary for her “Empower Your Heart” line, which volition donate 25% of each merchantability to the American Heart Association’s Life is Why run done December 31, 2023. Susan told HL that it was a “dream” to get to rise wealth for the American Heart Association.

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