PHOTOSArnold Schwarzenegger Undergoes Emergency Open-Heart Surgery
March 30 2018, Published 3:39 p.m. ET
Arnold Schwarzenegger had to undergo emergency open-heart surgery, according to reports. After experiencing complications during a catheter valve replacement procedure, the actor had to go in for the last-minute, life-saving heart surgery. Click through for more details.
Following his emergency open-heart surgery, Arnold, 70, is now in stable condition, according to reports.
This isn’t Arnold's first scary medical incident. He's been under the knife for this kind of surgery before. In 1997, he had an aortic valve replaced.
He opened up to the press about his first heart surgery in 2001, after breaking six ribs in a motorcycle accident.
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“It was very painful, much more painful than the heart surgery,” he said after his crash. “A rib breaking is, like, the worst.”
The former Celebrity Apprentice host has been laying low recently, after announcing he wouldn't return to the show for a second season. "It’s not about the show,” he said, “because everyone I ran into came up to me and said ‘I love the show… but I turned it off because as soon as I read Trump’s name I’m outta there!'”
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