The former sports figure, known for his controversial past and criminal conviction, has been privately grappling with a heart condition. Recent reports indicate that he experienced a heart attack, which necessitated emergency surgery. Doctors were able to intervene and save his life by inserting a stent, thus letting him "cheat death."
During the procedure, the stent was employed to restore proper blood flow by clearing the blockages in his arteries.
From Radar Online:
“My heart is giving out,” O.J. confided to a friend, who disclosed the condition to RadarOnline.com.
O.J.'s former manager, Norm Pardo, who recently spoke to The Naked Gun star, told RadarOnline.com that the disgraced running back has been in and out of the hospital.
"The doctors want him to rest at home because there isn’t much they can do for him.”
While the surgery was claimed to be a success and with O.J. understood to be in a stable condition under the watchful eye of doctors — he appeared in an online video on July 4 and looked healthy — the accused killer is “terrified” he’ll meet his maker soon, friends said.
“O.J.’s got it in his head that he’s going to die from a massive heart attack,” a close pal told us.
“It’s driving him crazy and adding even more stress to his troubled life. He believes he is dying in plain sight and the end is near.”
The medical mess has sparked yet another crisis in the aging disgraced star’s troubled life, a source dished.
O.J. was so feeble post-surgery that his son, Justin, from his ill-fated marriage to Nicole Brown, gave up his lucrative real-estate business in Florida and moved to Las Vegas to be closer to his ailing father, the insider added.
“Now he can’t even finish a round of golf – I don’t even think he golfs anymore because he can't even finish a half a round of golf two months ago when I was talking to him,” said Pardo, who plans to release his interactive crime-solving documentary O.J. Simpson: Who Really Killed Nicole later this year.
Poor O.J. can't even finish a round of golf. So sad.
Well, welcome to you're 70's, my guy!
As we get older, it's a reality that several chronic conditions catch up with us, and heart disease is a major one. O.J. got lucky that a stent could prolong his life, as not everyone who suffers from a heart attack is as fortunate.
