Arnold Schwarzenegger almost didn’t make it after his third open-heart surgery.
Schwarzenegger, the 76-year-old action star, revealed in a YouTube video that he underwent a valve replacement surgery before the filming of “Terminator: Dark Fate” in 2019.
The former governor of California said when he woke up after the surgery, doctors told him there had been internal bleeding and the team had to “open me up very quickly to save my life.”
"I was really freaking out," Schwarzenegger recalled. "I woke up and all of a sudden the doctors were in front of me saying, 'I'm so sorry but it was unlike what we planned.' [They said], 'We made a mistake and poked through the heart wall,' and had to open me up very quickly."
“You cannot roll the clock back,” he added. “I was in the middle of a disaster. So now, how do I get out of it? You have to shift gears. Collect yourself, shift gears and say, ‘Okay what I need to do now is get out of this hospital.’”
Footage is shown of Schwarzenegger and his steps to recovery following the surgery mishap.
He remarked how the surgery recovery made him even more sure of getting in the best shape possible for “Terminator: Dark Fate.”
“I had to move around, run around, lift things up, do the fight scenes,” he said.
He went on saying his “positive” attitude got him back in the ideal action star shape for the movie.