Little Richard reveals how an aspirin saved him from dying of a heart attack

Little Richard has revealed that he recently suffered a heart attack. Speaking to Cee Lo Green in an on-stage interview, the 80-year-old rock’n’roll singer divulged that he had almost died in Nashville about a week before.

Richard made the remarks during an appearance at Atlanta’s W Hotel to launch a series of music debates: “The other night, I didn’t know I was having a heart attack,” he said, according to Access Atlanta. “I was coughing, and my right arm was aching. I told my son, ‘Make the room as cold as ice.’ So he turned the air-conditioning on, and I took a baby aspirin. The doctor told me that saved my life. Jesus had something for me. He brought me through.”

Although the Tutti Frutti singer appears to have fully recovered, he reportedly travelled from Nashville to Atlanta on a tour-bus fitted with a hospital bed. The singer seemed to be full of thoughts about the afterlife and spoke often and stridently at the appearance about his identity as a Christian and his relationship with God: “God talked to me the other night,” he said. “When I talk to you about [Jesus], I’m not playing. I’m almost 81 years old. Without God, I wouldn’t be here.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Richard and Green traded a cappella ditties and sartorial compliments. “I wanted to wear something fabulous to make sure you didn’t miss me,” said Green – wearing a sparkling golden tunic. “When you came in,” Richard replied, “I said, ‘He looks like the living flame!'”

Admitted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at its inaugural ceremony, in 1986, Little Richard last released an album in 1992.

Source: The Guardian