Former Coronation Street star Chris Fountain has shared a moving message with his fans as he marked a year since suffering a stroke.
The actor suffered a mini-stroke in August last year, aged 35, and spent five days in a London hospital after waking up at home unable to speak properly.
Chris, who played Tommy Duckworth in the ITV soap, opened up about his terrifying health scare in October 2022, recalling 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.
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