Country music star Colt Ford suffered a heart attack on April 4, following a performance in Gilbert, Ariz. at Dierks Bentley's bar, Whiskey Row.
The "Drivin' Around Song" singer was moved to an intensive care unit at the Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Ariz. Colt and was later transferred to Scottsdale's Mayo Clinic, where he remains in critical, but stable, condition.
Ford made an appearance, from his hospital bed, on the radio show Big D and Bubba.
"Colt Ford is alive!" said host Big D as Bubba applauded. "We're so glad to hear your voice," he continued.
The country singer immediately leaped into the "traumatic, crazy" experience.
"Apparently I played this great, sold out show, and it was incredible. I walked back to the bus, texted my financée 'Hi baby' and fell over dead," said Ford.
"So, you were clinically dead?" asked Big D.
"I died two times," Ford said. His band reportedly went to check on him, found him collapsed and immediately took him to the hospital. However, the hospital did not have an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine, which pumps blood outside of the body to a heart-lung machine that removes carbon dioxide and sends oxygen-filled blood back to tissues in the body.
Brantley Gilbert, a close friend of Ford's, told the doctors that he didn't care "what you got to do, get him to the other hospital [with an ECMO], ASAP."
Ford, who does not remember any aspect of the event, was revived not once, but twice during the harrowing incident. While a trauma team transported him to the second hospital, Ford's heart stopped again.
"They brought me back. They saved my life. The Lord had more for me to do. I have more music to make, and, hopefully, some more differences to make in people's life," he said.
Big D and Bubba told the star that they had remained in contact with Gilbert for the past week.
"You got so many people who love you brother," said Big D.
"The overwhelming support and love I have felt has been...I get emotional just talking about it," replied Ford. He detailed that he didn't wake up from his attack until April 10, where he was met with his fiancée and son to his own bewilderment. Ford credited the doctors at Mayo Clinic for their hard work, saying he could not have been in a better place to have suffered a heart attack.
"I'm not 100% out of the woods yet," said Ford.
Ford has previously battled eye cancer, which he underwent surgery for in 2021. He was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis, an autoimmune disease, in 2022.
"Last year, I got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called Myasthenia Gravis," said Ford to Taste of Country, "It's been tough. The last year quite honestly got really hard for me. It's a disease and there's no cure for this."
The disease has caused him to have "no control over [his] right eye."
In the wake of his heart attack, Ford has canceled all upcoming dates of his Colt Ford on Tour tour, which began in February and was set to end in August.
Ford told Big D and Bubba that he will "Try to come back bigger and better than ever," adding that he's working on albums at the moment.
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