Thankfully, actor Kelsey Grammer, best as Frasier in the sitcoms "Cheers" and "Frasier," is still alive and well after his recent heart attack. He told Jay Leno on the Tonight Show, that he knew then he was dead from a heart attack. Kelsey Grammer told Jay Leno he was amused at the later news reports which made it sound like mild heart disease, while he knows the heart attack killed him.

Actually, at the time, his spokesman Stan Rosenfield said it was a mild heart attack, and sort of started the downplayed reporting. Kelsey Grammer said  "It felt like somebody was actually trying to . . . tear my chest apart with the jaws of life,"

Kelsey Grammer Said Work Stress Caused His Heart Failure

In an "Entertainment Tonight" interview, Kelsey Grammer, 53, said he felt chest pains while paddle-boarding with his wife in Hawaii, where they have a second home.  He said the heart attack was not actually mild at all and he nearly died because his heart stopped.  He said "they had to blast me twice and get me started all over again." Kelsey Grammer, told "People" work stress led to his heart attack.  He said pressure from his canceled sitcom "Back to You" contributed to his heart failure health problems. 

He said it was a very stressful time for him, and a surprise that his show was canceled." Grammer, told them "But you know, everything that doesn’t kill us – which it almost did – makes us stronger." When Asked if the health scare changed his lifestyle, Grammer said, "Oh, not a ton. Just watch your diet a little bit, take some pills." As far as exercising, he said he is taking it slow, and playing a lot of Wii. Hopefully, Kelsey Grammer is now paying close attention to warning signals like lowering his cholesterol level ldl if he has high cholesterol.

Frequently, The First Sign Of Heart Disease Is A Heart Attack – Act Quickly.

Each year over a million people in the U.S. have a heart attack. About half of them die. Many people have permanent heart damage or die because they don’t get help immediately. If you have any heart attack symptoms, call 9-1-1 immediately. Clot-busting drugs and other artery-opening treatments work best when given within the first hour after a heart attack starts.

The first hour also is the most risky time during a heart attack–it’s when your heart might stop suddenly. Responding fast to your symptoms really increases your chance of surviving. Kelsey Grammer is alive. Kelsey Grammer is recovering from a heart attack, and promoting his new movie "Swing Vote", because the people around him acted immediately. If you have any heart attack symptoms, call 9-1-1 immediately.

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