The Price is Right host Drew Carey recently revealed that he suffered a heart attack, along with the symptoms he had ignored.
On the March 4 episode of Ted Danson‘s Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, Carey, 67, recalled his 2001 health emergency, which happened while filming The Drew Carey Show.
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“I was really overweight, and we were supposed to come back to taping,” he said of the incident. “So, I had a little chest heart monitor and whatever. And I was jogging down my street, and my heart rate went up to like 160 or something like that, like really crazy, and I was like, ‘Oh.’ And I felt, like, numb in my shoulder.”
Carey continued, “But I thought if you had a heart attack, you go ‘Ehh!’ and fall down. Like in a cartoon. I thought that’s what happened when you had a heart attack. So I was like, ‘That’s really worrisome, let me slow down.'”
Although he slowed down and then tried running again, his heart rate spiked again, so he eventually stopped. That same day, he went to a Bob’s Big Boy with his then-girlfriend.
“I had chili spaghetti and an iced tea after a heart attack,” Carey pointed out.
That next day, while on set to film The Drew Carey Show, he felt sharp pain in his chest and had someone call 911. He ended up spending the night at a hospital and undergoing a procedure to have a stent put in his heart.
“I left the next day, and I was just like weak as a kitten,” Carey recalled.
Elsewhere in the podcast episode, Carey said that he hardly ate any vegetables before he started losing weight.
“I would go to a steak place and have the steak, the bread, the loaded mashed potatoes, a couple beers, and then a dessert,” he shared. “And whatever vegetable was there, I would just leave it there.”
Carey continued, “After that, I would go to a steakhouse, I’d eat the steak, the vegetables, not order a potato or not touch it, not really have the bread, and I just drink water all day,” he said. “Like, I don’t even drink—I don’t drink alcohol at all anymore. It’s wild.”
Today, he regularly eats salads for lunch. “When I’m eating, like, a salad that has green beans and stuff in it, I’m like, ‘Man, 20 years ago, 25 years ago, I wouldn’t have touched this.’”
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