In 2021, music mogul Dr. Dre was hospitalized for two weeks at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after undergoing treatment for a brain aneurysm. Years later, Dre spoke out about his hospitalization and revealed that he suffered three strokes while in the hospital.
During a guest appearance on SiriusXM’s “This Life of Mine with James Corden,” the rapper detailed the events leading up to his ICU stay.
“I just woke up and felt something right behind my right ear,” he recalled. “It was the worst pain I’ve ever felt. Then I got up and went about my life as usual. I thought I could just lie down and take a nap. My son now has female friends. did. [She was] “No, we need to take you to the hospital.” So they took me to urgent care. So I went to urgent care and they said, ‘No, this is serious.’ ”
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Rapper and producer Dr. Dre said he suffered three strokes after being hospitalized with a brain aneurysm in 2021. (Dimitrios Cambris/Getty Images for the Metropolitan Museum of Art/Vogue)
“Before I knew it, I blacked out. I was coming in and out of consciousness and ended up in the ICU,” he explained.
“I was there for two weeks,” he said. “I can hear the doctors coming in. [saying] “You don’t realize how lucky you are.”
Dre said he suffered three strokes over the course of two weeks.
Dre, real name Andre Romelle Young, remembers asking his doctor if there was anything he could do to prevent this.
“I had no idea I had high blood pressure,” she added, adding that at the time of her aneurysm, she was actively lifting weights and running to stay in shape. “I said, ‘Could this have been prevented if I had worked out a little harder or eaten a different food or something like that?’
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Dr. Dre poses for a photo while recording James Corden’s SiriusXM show. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images, SiriusXM))
Doctors told him that high blood pressure was hereditary and more common in black men. “They call it the silent killer,” he said.
“When you go through that situation, it definitely makes you grateful to be alive,” he told Corden about the ordeal. “It’s crazy, especially on the way home from the hospital, because that probably shouldn’t have happened.”
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Dr. Dre said he suffered three strokes while in the hospital. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)
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“Now I know I had no control over it, but it’s something that can happen out of the blue. I wake up and say, ‘S—. OK, I’m here.’ …Isn’t that the weirdest thing?” he admitted to Corden. “It’s something you can’t control.”
