In 2021, music mogul Dr. Dre was treated for a brain aneurysm and confined to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for two weeks. Years later, Dre talks about his hospitalization and reveals that he suffered three strokes during his stay.
As a guest on SiriusXM's “This Life of Mine with James Corden,” the rapper detailed the events leading up to his ICU stay.
“I woke up and felt something right behind my right ear,” he recalled. “The worst pain I've ever felt. And I got up and went about my day and thought I could just lie down and take a nap. My son had a friend who was there. [She was] like, 'No, we have to take you to the hospital.' Then they took me to the emergency room. And I got to urgent care and they said, 'No, this is serious.'”
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After being hospitalized in 2021 for a brain aneurysm, rapper and producer Dr. Dre says he suffered three strokes. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
“The next thing you know, I'm passing out. I go in and lose consciousness and end up in the ICU,” he explained.
“I was there for two weeks,” he shared. “I hear the doctors come in, [saying] 'You don't know how lucky you are.'”
During that two-week period, Dre said, he experienced three strokes.
Dre, whose real name is Andre Romell Young, remembers asking doctors if he could have done anything to prevent it.
“I had no idea he had high blood pressure or anything like that,” adding that he was actively lifting weights and running to stay physically fit at the time of his aneurysm. “I said, 'Would that have been avoided if he had exercised a little harder or eaten differently or something?'”
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Dr. Dre poses for a photo while recording James Corden's SiriusXM show. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SiriusXM))
Doctors informed him that high blood pressure was hereditary and was commonly found in black men. “They call it the silent killer,” he said.
“It definitely makes you appreciate being alive, that's for sure, when you go through that situation,” he told Corden of the ordeal. “It's crazy. Especially when I was on my way home from the hospital because that couldn't possibly have happened.”
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Dr. Dre says that while in the hospital he suffered three strokes. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
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“Now, knowing that I had no control over it, it's something that could happen out of nowhere. You wake up and go, 'F—. Okay, I'm here'… Isn't that the strangest thing?” he admitted to Corden. “It's something you can't control.”
