Coronation Street actor Charles Lawson has revealed he will be on medication for the rest of his life after suffering a mini-stroke.
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Charles was taken ill as he performed in a touring production of Rebus: Long Shadows – a stage adaptation of Ian Rankin’s fictional detective series.
The Mirror reports that the scary on-stage episode left Charles confused, and with no idea where he was.
“Not to put too fine point on it, I had a TIA on stage, which you probably know is a mini-stroke,” 69-year-old Charles told the paper.
Charles – who revived his Jim McDonald character on Corrie with a shock story-line involving his believed-to-be-dead-daughter earlier this year, said he first realised something was wrong when he lost his hearing during the second half of the stage performance.
“We opened in Edinburgh playing to a full house and I was halfway through the second half, the climax of the play, and I went deaf,” he told the paper.
“I was aware that John Stahl [who plays gangster Big Ger] was saying his lines but I thought they were from a different play. For two minutes I had no idea where I was, then I woke up in the wings. It was a little disturbing to say the least.”
Charles says he has recovered from the mini-stroke, which happened three weeks ago, and has returned to work.
Despite making a full recovery, and suffering no lasting issues, he says he will now be on medication for the rest of his life as a result of the stroke.
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