Montel Williams, the award-winning talk show host, reveals just how miraculous his stroke was in 2018. Not only was he incredibly close to death, but he was fully aware he was having a stroke the whole time.
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In 2018, Montel Williams suffered from a stroke when he was working out in a New York City hotel gym. He recently sat down with Sean Hannity on Fox Nation's Sean, where he delved into what made his stroke so miraculous.
"The only thing that saved me was the fact that the blood bleed that I had in the back of my brain missed my spinal cord by a hundredth of an inch," Williams told an incredulous Hannity.
"That's one of the top doctors in the country, New York Presbyterian, who told me... if that had touched your spinal cord, you wouldn't be here right now."
Not only was Montel Williams absurdly close to death, but doctors have no idea why he suffered a stroke in the first place. "Doctors can't explain to me why I had a stroke. They called it a transient event, which meant that I had a spike in my blood pressure for some reason that popped this blood vessel in the back of my head," he explained.
He reckons being knocked in the back of the head during his military days may have contributed to "weakening that blood vessel."
But this isn't even the craziest part. What's really wild, is that Montel Williams knew he was having a stroke the whole time.
Montel Williams Knew He Was Having A Stroke
Coincidentally, Montel Williams had recently been taught about the symptoms of a stroke by "Dr. Oz," Mehmet Oz, the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. So he was able to identify what he was going through when he stood up with a dumbbell on his back at the gym.
"I stood up... and then all of a sudden the room started kaleidoscoping," he recalled. "And then I thought, oh, lord, I think I'm having a stroke."
Despite experiencing a stroke, he managed to walk over to the elevator and make his way to his wife, whom he told to call 911. When emergency services got there, they recognised that he was still having a stroke and immediately got him to the hospital.
His experience here leads him to believe it was divine intervention that he made it through the stroke alive. I feel many would have a difficult time suggesting otherwise.
