Former Coronation Street star Chris Fountain has shared an image and videos of himself in a hospital bed months after suffering a stroke. The actor, who played Tommy Duckworth in the ITV soap, suffered a mini-stroke in August last year and spent five days in a London hospital after waking up at home unable to speak properly.
Opening up about his terrifying health scare in October 2022, Chris recalled how he was left "speaking like a toddler" before doctors discovered he had suffered a Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) – also known as a mini-stroke – after a blood clot lodged in his brain.
After several days of tests at a specialist stroke unit at the Royal London Hospital, medics determined the actor had a hole in his heart which had caused the blood clot to travel to his brain, triggering the stroke. Chris, 35, has since dedicated himself to raising awareness of the condition
