For the first time, she takes the floor to come back to this traumatic episode.
In a video posted on her YouTube channel on Wednesday April 27 and entitled “I tell you my story”, Hailey Bieber talks about the stroke she suffered at the beginning of March.
It is in all simplicity, dressed in a white t-shirt and in her living room that the wife of Justin Bieber begins her story: “I was having lunch with my husband when I felt a strange sensation in my arm, before my fingers go numb.
She continues: “When he asked me if I was okay, I couldn't answer him”.
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It was from this moment that the niece of Alec Baldwin understood that she was having an attack and that she decided to call a doctor.
“It was the scariest moment of my life, everything was going through my head because I didn't really know what was going on, or if I was going to have any consequences,” she explains.
By the time the 25-year-old arrived at the emergency room “everything was pretty much back to normal.
I could talk and I had no more problem with my face or my arm”.
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A “blood clot” would have developed in his brain following the Covid-19
A hole in the heart
After several scans, the doctors explained to Hailey Bieber that she had suffered a TIA (transient ischemic attack), that is to say a mini-stroke.
What is the origin of this phenomenon?
A blood clot that deprived his brain of oxygen for a few moments.
The doctors first thought that the pill or the Covid had caused this event.
As soon as she was able to leave the hospital, the young woman went to UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) to understand the origins of the problem.
On video, Hailey Bieber looks back on her stroke
There, she underwent a Doppler which made it possible to arrive at the following diagnosis: Hailey Bieber suffers from a PFO (
permeable foramen ovale, Editor
’s note ) of grade 5, the highest.
Namely a small hole in the heart, which measures between 12 and 13 millimeters.
“I felt relieved when they found the problem,” she says in the video, adding that she now takes aspirin and blood thinners daily.
She ended her video by thanking all the doctors who helped her and took care of her.
For better and for worse
This event was also not easy for Justin Bieber, her husband of four years.
During his
Justice
tour , the 28-year-old singer reassured his fans about Hailey's health condition while he was in the middle of a concert in Denver.
"Most of you probably know what happened to my wife, but she's fine, she's strong," he said in a video he posted on his Instagram account, just days after the death. hospitalization of the latter, on March 17.