Max George from The Wanted wrote his will before heart surgery

Max George reflects on his recent hospitalization problems with your heart.

“That first night when I wrote my will, I thought I was going to die,” George, 36, said on Saturday, January 11, in an interview with Sun.

The Wanted frontman he recalled waking up on December 11, 2024, with icy blue hands, while he was with his mom.

“I wasn’t feeling well for a couple of days, I was starting to feel a bit rough,” George said. “I couldn’t put my finger on it. I was quite lethargic and so, I struggled to get out of bed. But I didn’t think it was anything serious.”

He continued: “Luckily I went to stay with my mum and I woke up and I remember looking at my hands and they were blue and my hands were gray and I was cold. I struggled to even stand up in bed.”

When George’s mom saw him, she gasped and called the doctor. While George was being examined and sent home, his mom continued to seek help.

“At that moment I had a feeling of panic, but I was also completely exhausted,” he said. “I couldn’t move my arms, and the worst feeling was that my throat was closing. I felt like someone had their arms around my neck. Thank God I stayed at my mother’s house — she saved my life.”

Doctors informed George that there was something “wrong with the bottom part” of his heart and that he would need a pacemaker.

“For some reason the rhythm is out of whack and the signal doesn’t seem to be getting from the upper chamber of your heart to the lower part, the part that pumps blood around your body,” he recalled the doctors telling him. “I was in complete shock.”

George called the experience “really scary” noting it was “definitely not where I thought I’d be at 36.”

“I was up all night, I felt a tightness in my throat, I was really struggling to move and I was breathing really deeply, slowly,” he said. “There was nothing they could do to stop it. I could have lived maybe a few weeks, maybe a few months, but it could have been a few hours. We didn’t know.”

Two days after he was admitted to the hospital, George’s heart rate dropped to 26 beats per minute.

“Friday, December 13, was the worst day I had there,” he said. My heart rate and blood pressure dropped at the same time and that was the biggest concern.

He continued: “Consultants were not present to perform emergency surgery. It was pretty close that night, it felt like my throat was closing and then a kind of panic set in. I felt like I was dying. It was the worst, I felt emotional.”

On December 15, George was taken by ambulance to the hospital where he underwent a CT scan. He got the Pacemaker three days later, with his partner Maisie Smith next to him when he became aware of his surroundings.

“At that time I also had a regular heartbeat. My pulse started to quicken. So I remember feeling a tingle in my feet, because I think obviously the blood started pumping properly, he said.

He continued: “I was like, ‘Shit, I feel alive again,’ like it’s a really nice feeling. It was so hard to be away from Maisie, but she climbed onto the bed, apparently on the other side of my chest from my surgery, and put her head down on top of me. We just cuddled for a few hours while I talked about football and we treated it like normal. I felt butterflies next to her again.”