The Wanted’s Max George wrote a will before undergoing heart surgery

Max George reflects on his recent hospitalization Problems with his heart.

“The first night I wrote a will, I thought I was going to die,” George, 36, said in an interview on Saturday, January 11th The sun.

The Frontman wanted He remembered waking up with ice-cold blue hands on December 11, 2024 while staying with his mother.

“I haven’t felt well for a few days, I started to feel a little unwell,” George said. “I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I was quite lethargic and had trouble getting out of bed. But I didn’t think it was anything serious.”

He continued: “Luckily I had gone to my mother’s and when I woke up I remember looking at my hands which were blue and my arms were a gray color and I was freezing cold. I had a hard time even sitting up in bed.”

When George’s mother saw him, she gasped and called a doctor. While George was examined and sent home, his mother continued to ask for help.

“At that point I was feeling panicky but also completely exhausted,” he said. “I couldn’t move my arms and the worst feeling was that my throat was closing. It felt like someone had put their hands around my neck. Thank God I stayed with my mother – she saved my life.”

Doctors told George there was something wrong “with the lower part” of his heart and he would need a pacemaker.

“For some reason the rhythm is not right and the signal doesn’t seem to get from the upper chamber of the heart to the lower part, the part that pumps blood throughout your body,” he recalled doctors telling him. “I was completely shocked.”

George called the experience “really scary” and noted that it was “certainly not the place I would end up at at 36 years old.”

“I was up all night, feeling like my throat was closing, really struggling to move, breathing really deeply and slowly,” he said. “There was nothing they could do about it. I could have lived maybe a few weeks, maybe a few months, but it also could have been a few hours. We didn’t know.”

Two days after being admitted to the hospital, George’s heart rate dropped to 26 beats per minute.

“Friday, December 13, was the worst day I had there,” he said. “My heart rate and blood pressure dropped at the same time, and that was the biggest concern.”

He continued: “The consultants were not on site to carry out the operation in an emergency. It was pretty tight that night, it really felt like my throat was closing up, and then the kind of panic really started to set in. I felt like I was dying. It was the worst, I was emotional.”

George was taken by ambulance to hospital on December 15, where he underwent a CT scan. Three days later, he and his partner received a pacemaker Maisie Smith at his side as he became aware of his surroundings.

“I also had a decent heartbeat back then. My heart rate started to skyrocket. So I remember feeling a tingling sensation in my feet because I think the blood seemed to really start pumping,” he said.

He continued: “I thought, ‘Holy goodness, I feel alive again,’ like it’s a really nice feeling.” It was so hard being away from Maisie, but she climbed onto the bed, obviously lying down the other side of my chest to my surgery, and rested her head on me. We just cuddled for a few hours while I talked about football and we treated it as normal. I could feel butterflies next to her again.”