The 64-year-old former Top Gear presenter was recently fitted with two stents, which improve blood flow to the heart, after he experienced symptoms such as shortness of breath and struggling to walk up a flight of stairs while on holiday. Doctors told him he was potentially days away from dying.
Clarkson said the operation did not faze him, but said the prospect of adopting lifestyle changes such as abstaining from alcohol, quitting smoking, having to exercise and managing a healthy diet, was what he feared the most. In his column in The Sun, the broadcaster wrote: “If I go to a party, I must stand in a corner, nursing some refreshing elderflower juice, before going home at about 9.30. That’s terrifying.”
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