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Country singer Colt Ford suffered a heart attack Thursday after a performance at a bar in Arizona.
The star, 54, suffered a heart attack after performing at Dierks Bfully’s Whiskey Row in Gilbert and is now in the Intensive Care Unit at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona, his spokesperson said. 9News.
Ford has a history of health problems, including eye cancer and the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis.
Three years ago she revealed she had undergone surgery for eye cancer, telling People: “The doctor told me I was a week to 10 days away from having full chemotherapy.”
He first went to the doctor after a friend noticed a spot in his eye.
Country singer Colt Ford suffered a heart attack after a performance at an Arizona bar on Thursday (pictured in 2011).
The star, 54, suffered a heart attack after performing at Dierks Bfully’s Whiskey Row in Gilbert and is now in the Intensive Care Unit at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona, his spokesperson told 9News.
He said, “I went to a doctor in Georgia who specialized in cataracts and all that, and I remember them saying, ‘This is not good,’ and ‘You’ve got to get this out,'” Ford, 51, recalls. He wanted me to go see a cornea specialist, Dr. Uyen Tran, in Nashville, and that’s when I started to get really nervous.
After surgery, Ford resumed his music career and was able to treat the cancer with chemotherapy drops.
He released his latest album, Must Be The Country, in 2023, which featured songs with Tracy Lawrence, Tracy Byrd and Dillon Carmichael.
Last year he talked about his health battles and how it encouraged him to take care of himself.
He said Taste of the country: ‘I’ve gotten in much better shape and feel great. My life is in a great place. I’m getting married in October. I found my person. And I’m as happy and excited as I’ve ever been about music, which is a little hard to believe. I feel like I’m not even making my best music.
‘Last year I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called myasthenia gravis. It’s been hard. Honestly, last year was very difficult for me. It is a disease and there is no cure for it.”
He said the condition “affects the muscles of the face, eyes and throat.” It hadn’t really affected my throat, but it did affect my eye a lot. I had no control over my right eye. It really affects your vision. I could see perfectly with both eyes, but then I looked at the same time and saw three of you and they melted together like a lava lamp.’
‘There is a terrible fatigue factor that comes from this. They say there is no cure, but this doctor prescribes these supplements that are really helping me. I’m in a much better place than before.’
Ford has a history of health problems, including eye cancer and the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis (pictured in 2021)
Ford burst onto the music scene in 2008 with his debut album Ride Through the Country.
He is a co-writer and originally recorded Dirt Road Anthem with Brantley Gilbert; the song became the number one Billboard Country Airplay hit for Jason Aldean in 2011.
Ford wrote the theme song “Buck ’em” for the Professional Bull Riders association.
Ford’s fourth album, Declaration of Independence, became his first number one album on Top Country Albums.