Vinnie Jones has opened up on his wife Tanya’s heart transplant, saying it saved his life, not just hers. Tanya had a transplant after suffering heart failure following the birth of her daughter at the age of 21.
Now the former footballer-turn-actor has said the procedure three decades ago was a ‘fantastic gift’ to the whole family. In an interview with BBC Inside Out, Vinnie said this week: ‘Tans had a transplant after her heart collapsed giving birth and we lived with that for ever more.
It was a fantastic gift that we were given. ‘If you kneel down in front of the pearly gates and say: “Give us five more years with her, give us 10 years” – you take that.
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