Hailey Bieber has opened up about suffering a “really scary” mini-stroke which left her unable to speak.
The model wife of popstar Justin Bieber detailed the ordeal in a 12-minute YouTube video, called ‘telling my story’, on Wednesday.
She revealed the stroke was from a blood clot as a result of a combination of a long haul flight, Covid, and side effects from birth control pills.
The 25-year-old told fans how she noticed something was wrong when she began having trouble with her speech and her fingertips went numb while having breakfast with Justin.
She said: “[It was] definitely the scariest moment of my life.”
Tests revealed she had what is called a grade-five patent foramen ovale (PFO), the largest category of a hole in the heart.
The clot was able to escape through her heart and travel to her brain - requiring emergency surgery to fix the problem.
Recounting the health scare, she said: “I would get really bad anxiety and my anxiety was making me feel funny.
“It would make my fingers and hands feel tingly, and I just honestly had a really, really hard time."
After undergoing the surgery, the model said she quickly recovered.
“The biggest thing I feel is I just feel really relieved that we were able to figure everything out, that we were able to get it closed,” she said.
“That I will be able to just move on from this really scary situation and just live my life."
She thanked doctors who had taken care of her throughout the scare, saying: “If there’s anybody that watches this that has gone through the same thing or something similar, I definitely really empathise with you.
“And I understand how life-altering and scary it is."
She said she is now taking aspirin and blood thinners daily, and shared that she is no longer suffering from any related symptoms as a result of the episode.
