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Country singer Colt Ford suffered a heart attack after a performance at an Arizona bar on Thursday.
The star, 54, had the heart attack after performing at Dierks Bently’s Whiskey Row in Gilbert and is now in the Intensive Care Unit at the Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona, his spokesman told 9News.
Ford has a history of health problems, including eye cancer and autoimmune disease Myasthenia Gravis.
Three years ago he revealed had undergone surgery for eye cancer, telling People: ‘The doctor told me I was a week to 10 days from having to go on full chemo.’
He first went to the doctor after a friend noticed a spot on his eye.
Country singer Colt Ford suffered a heart attack after a performance at an Arizona bar on Thursday (pictured 2011)
The star, 54, had the heart attack after performing at Dierks Bently’s Whiskey Row in Gilbert and is now in the Intensive Care Unit at the Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona, his spokesman told 9News
He said: ‘I went to a doctor in Georgia that specialized in cataracts and all that stuff, and I remember them saying, ‘This ain’t good’ and ‘You gotta get this out,” recalls Ford, 51. ‘They wanted me to go see a cornea specialist, Dr. Uyen Tran, in Nashville, and that’s when I started getting really nervous.’
Following surgery, Ford resumed his music career and was able to treat the cancer with chemotherapy drops.
He released his last album – Must Be The Country – in 2023 which included songs with Tracy Lawrence, Tracy Byrd and Dillon Carmichael.
