Country music star fighting for life sends message to fans from hospital bed. ttmd

Just three weeks after he collapsed with a heart attack following a show in Arizona, Colt Ford took to social media from his hospital bed Wednesday with a message for his fans.

“I just wanted to tell you guys, thank y’all for all the prayers, the love, the comments, the messages,” the 54-year-old country music star said in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “I got a long way to go, but I promise you this old country boy will get back. It probably won’t be this year, and I hate that I gotta miss all these shows, but I am coming back.”

Ford actually made his first statements since the incident when he called in on Tuesday to the Big D & Bubba show. It was during that call that he revealed that he “died twice” during the ordeal.

“It’s been a traumatic, crazy experience,” Ford told the hosts. “I didn’t even remember coming out here to do a show in Phoenix.”

Ford said he had just stepped back onto his tour bus after performing at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row bar in Mesa, Arizona when he texted his fiancée, ‘Hi baby.’”

“And then I fell over dead,” he said.

Ford said that, luckily, his band came out to check on him and found him. And, he said, country music star Brantley Gilbert got involved in getting him to the hospital and, eventually, making sure he was switched to another hospital when the one they were at didn’t have the correct equipment to deal with Ford’s heart situation.

“He said, ‘I don’t care what you do, get him to the other hospital,’” Ford said of Gilbert.

Ford said he died during transport to the other hospital.

“They brought me back,” he said. “They saved my life. The Lord had more for me to do.”

He added that one of his doctors told him he would not have given him a 1-percent chance to live.

“He said, I would give you a .1 percent chance that you would have survived,’” Ford said.

“I had so much trauma in my body and my heart,” he said. “I had three stints put in (my heart).”

In his message posted to social media on Wednesday he also thanked his family and his fiancée Megan.

“It’s tough on everybody,” he said. “You don’t realize that until you get in this situation. Make sure you take care of yourself. Things can sneak up on you, but know that I’m coming back. I promise you. I love ya’ll.”

Ford, who has worked closely with Toby Keith, Jamey Johnson and Jason Aldean, has had his share of health issues. Taste of Country reported last year that he was battling Myasthenia Gravis, an autoimmune disease.

He also reportedly had eye cancer and had to undergo surgery three years ago to deal with that.

Ford, whose real name is Jason Farris Brown, is a former professional golfer. He has released eight studio albums with his first coming in 2008, and his most recent, “Must Be Country,” released in 2023.