Former Coronation Street star Chris Fountain suffers mini stroke at 35
Written by First Choice Radio on 10 October 2022
Former Coronation Street actor Chris Fountain has said he was left “speaking like a toddler” after suffering a mini stroke.
The 35-year-old, who played Weatherfield’s Tommy Duckworth in the long-running soap, told the Daily Mirror he spent five days in a London hospital after waking up at home unable to speak properly in August.
The actor told the newspaper doctors had discovered he had suffered a Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) – known as a mini stroke – after a blood clot lodged in his brain.
Fountain said: “I woke up one morning and knew something wasn’t right.
“My mum called me and I just couldn’t get my words out. I started walking round my house looking at things and I could think what the word was, like television or fridge, but I couldn’t say it.
“I called 111 on my mum’s advice and they sent an ambulance for me, it was so scary.
“I felt stupid because I knew exactly what I wanted to say to the doctors, but I couldn’t get the words out, I was speaking like a toddler, I was really embarrassed.”
The 35-year-old said he had broken down in tears when doctors informed him he had had a TIA.
After several days of undergoing tests at a specialist stroke unit at the Royal London Hospital, medics had determined the actor had a hole in his heart which had caused the blood clot to travel to his brain, triggering the stroke.
Published: by Radio NewsHub
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