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Bishop T.D. Jakes is opening up about his horrifying medical scare that unfolded during a live sermon in November last year, revealing that he had a "massive heart attack."
The Dallas pastor was in the middle of preaching on November 24, 2024, when he, out of nowhere, slumped over his stool, shaking, prompting onlookers to rush to his aid. The incident happened during a livestream from The Potter’s House in Dallas. Speaking with Crag Melvin on Today, Bishop T.D. Jakes said:
“I didn’t really realize what was happening to me on stage until I got to the hospital and in an ambulance,” Jakes said. “The doctor leaned over in my ear and said, ‘You had a massive heart attack.’ And the reason I didn’t realize it was because I had none of the symptoms. No numbness, no sharp pain, no anything. I just kind of drifted off to sleep. I didn’t know what it was, but I almost died.”
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Bishop T.D. Jakes revealed that he had to undergo emergency surgery as a result of the incident, noting:
“[The doctor] said five minutes later I’d be dead on arrival. The right side of my heart had completely stopped getting blood at all. As long as I was preaching, I felt fine. But when I sat down, the adrenaline dropped, and it exposed the fact that I was preaching with half of my heart closed through a clot. And they had to go get it.”
The Bishop also revealed that it's still hard for him to watch the clip of the incident, noting that they had to "claw the microphone out of my hand” at the time, referring to it as a surreal experience.
“In my mind I was in a quiet, peaceful, serene, white-enveloped, cloud-enveloped space,” Jakes said. “I was on my way out. Afterwards, in retrospect, it was such a privilege to stand on the other side, to get a glimpse of what it might be like, or at least what it was like in the moment for me. I think it was absolutely amazing.”
Nonetheless, he said he's grateful for everyone's prayers and has no plans of slowing down:
“I’m getting faster because one, I’m older. Two, I’m grateful. Three, I’ve got something to say,” Jakes said.
During his interview with Today, Bishop T.D. Jakes also addressed the allegations of s*xual assault levied against him by two brothers. Reflecting on why he filed a defamation lawsuit against one of them, he said it's because
"if you don’t ever speak back, it just continues to go on and on and on, and I decided enough is enough."
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