Star of Springwatch Iolo Williams was forced to save his own life during a terrifying incident in the countryside.
The 61-year-old nature expert suffered a heart attack while out on a jog. However, he didn’t have his phone on him so he was unable to contact anyone. To make things worse, Iolo was roughly six miles away from his car when it happened.
‘It came like a bolt out of the blue’
The presenter told the Mirror that the heart attack “came like a bolt out of the blue,” explaining he felt “intense pain under my sternum.”
Due to his car being so far away, Iolo had to deal with the pain while walking back to his vehicle. Despite struggling to get back to his car, he knew it would be harder to get help if he remained where he was. When his heart condition got worse he would crouch down and recuperate.
When Iolo finally made it to his car, he phoned for an ambulance and had to wait 90 minutes for them to reach him.
His wife, Ceri, came down and drove him to the hospital where he was in the hands of the NHS, who Iolo said was “superb.”
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