Colt Ford Reveals He 'Died 2 Times' After Having Heart Attack and Is 'Not 100% Out of the Woods'

"I walked back to the bus, texted my fiancée, 'Hi baby,' and fell over dead," Ford recalled of his April 4 heart attack

Colt Ford is opening up about his recent heart attack.

The musician, 54, revealed on the Big D & Bubba radio show that he doesn’t have any recollection of his performance at Dierks Bentley's Whiskey Row venue in Gilbert, Arizona on April 4, which left him in "an Intensive Care Unit at the Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona," according to an April 5 press release.

“I didn’t even remember coming out here to do a show in Phoenix, and apparently we played this great, sold-out show and it was incredible,” Ford told the radio hosts in a phone interview. “I walked back to the bus, texted my fiancée, ‘Hi baby,’ and fell over dead.”

When asked by one of the radio hosts if he had been “clinically dead,” Ford admitted that he “died two times” following the performance. He added that he wouldn’t have had a chance if his band hadn’t gone and checked on him.

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"They’re like, ‘It’s really hot in there.’ I’m getting to kind of be an old guy now and they came out and checked on me and then all of a sudden, they were like ‘Oh God.’ That’s when all hell broke loose.”

He said the band and Bentley transported him over to a hospital, where they determined he needed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), in which blood is pumped outside of the body and oxygenated in order to help vital organs like the heart rest while recovering from serious illness or injury, according to Mayo Clinic.

However, the first hospital did not have the correct facilities, so they had to get him to “another hospital ASAP,” he told Big D & Bubba.

“Bentley’s trauma team got me [to a second hospital]. [I] died on the way over and they brought me back and saved my life,” Ford recalled.

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Ford said he hadn’t woken up until a week after the performance on "April 10," when he found his fiancée Megan and son Colt Jr. at his bedside in the hospital. He said doctors told him at the time, “I wouldn’t have given you 1%, I would have given you 0.1% that you would survive.”

“So it has been life changing, spiritually changing, and obviously physically changing,” Ford said. “I’m still not 100% out of the woods yet.”

“The Country as Truck” singer  shared that due to all the “trauma to my body and my heart,” they had to “put three stents in” and that his gallbladder also “crapped out” on him and the doctors told him that they had to put a “drain in.”

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While the country-rap singer admitted that he needed “to learn to be selfish for a while” until he got better, he said that the whole experience has given him greater understanding of his purpose.

“The Lord had more for me to do,” he said. “I’ve got more music for me to make and hopefully more differences to make in some people’s lives.”

“[The heart attack’s] changed my perspective and outlook on lots of things. I can’t even tell you,” he added, along with a singular piece of advice, “Live every day like it’s your last because one day it will be.”

Ford first spoke out about his medical incident in a video shared to Instagram on Wednesday, April 24, nearly three weeks after he was rushed to the ICU.

“I just want to tell you guys, thank y’all for all the prayers, the love, the comments," Ford said in the video. "The messages I got a long way to go, but I promise you this ol’ country boy will get back. It probably won’t be this year, and I hate I gotta miss all these shows, but I’m coming back."

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