Drew Carey poses for The Artists Project at Rock To Recovery 5th Anniversary Holiday Party
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Not even a heart attack could stop Drew Carey<\/a> from working on his eponymous ABC sitcom \u2014 until he had another heart attack, that is.<\/p>\n Appearing on Ted Danson<\/a>‘s podcast, Where Everybody Knows Your Name<\/em><\/a>, Carey opened the conversation by recounting a major health scare during his time as star and co-creator of The Drew Carey Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201cI was really overweight, and we were supposed to come back to start taping, so I thought I was going to start jogging,” Carey recalled. “I had a little heart monitor, and I was jogging down my street, and my heart rate went up to something really crazy, and I was like, \u2018Oh.\u2019 And I felt numb in my shoulder [and] all the things that I read were heart attack symptoms. But I thought if you had a heart attack, you would go, ‘Ugh,’ and fall down like in a cartoon.”<\/p>\n Drew Carey on ‘The Drew Carey Show.’ That didn’t happen to Carey, so he continued jogging, only for his heart rate to go back up.<\/p>\n Carey told Danson that he now realizes that seeing a deer on the run was “supposed to be an omen.” But, instead of going to the hospital, he went to dinner with his then-girlfriend and ordered a less than ideal post-heart attack meal: chili spaghetti. The following day, Carey returned for the beginning of production on the next season of the show, and after rehearsals, he once again felt a tightness in his chest\u2014 this time in the writer’s room \u2014 prompting him to excuse himself to head to his trailer and finally call the doctor.<\/p>\n<\/div>
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