News anchor from Oklahoma (USA) Julie Chin revealed he suffered the beginnings of a stroke live after stumbling over his words.
Chin, who works for NBC affiliate KJRH in Tulsa, was admitted to a hospital last Saturday.
“The past few days remain a mystery, but my doctors believe I had the onset of a living stroke on Saturday morning. Some of you have witnessed it firsthand and I’m so sorry it happened,” Chin wrote in a Facebook post.
“The episode seemed to have come out of nowhere. I felt very good before our show,” said the presenter.
“Within a few minutes of our newscast, things started to happen. First, I lost partial vision in one eye. A little later my hand and arm became numb. So I knew I was in big trouble if my mouth didn’t say the words that were on the teleprompter right in front of me.”
She was reporting on the postponed launch of NASA’s Artemis 1 mission. The communicator was visibly confused and began repeating her words.
After struggling for a few seconds, Chin finally apologized to the viewers. “I’m sorry, something is happening to me this morning,” he said.
After this episode, the host gave meteorologist Annie Brown the pass for a weather update; However, she was unable to return to the air for the remainder of the broadcast.
“My colleagues recognized the emergency situation and called 911,” Chin said in his post.
In his social media post, he revealed he underwent a battery of tests at the hospital to determine the cause of his broadcast. “At this point doctors believe I had the onset of a stroke but not a full stroke,” he revealed.
“There are still a lot of questions and a lot to do, but the bottom line should be fine,” Chin said.