US EditionBishop T.D. Jakes suffered ‘massive heart attack' during health scare
- On March 26, 2025, Bishop T.D. Jakes, the 67-year-old senior pastor of The Potter's House in Dallas, appeared on TODAY to discuss a health scare he experienced in November 2024.
- While delivering a sermon at The Potter's House on November 24, 2024, Jakes began experiencing unsettling symptoms, including pausing, shaking, and lowering his microphone, which were later determined to be signs of a massive heart attack.
- Jakes was rushed to the hospital, where doctors told him that the right side of his heart had stopped working and that he would have died within five minutes had he not received immediate medical attention and surgery.
- Jakes told Craig Melvin on TODAY, "I almost died," and shared that doctors said, "You had a massive heart attack," and "I was on my way out," emphasizing how grateful he is to be alive.
- Despite the near-fatal heart attack and ongoing legal battles, including a defamation lawsuit against two men who accused him of sexual assault and a dispute with Google over AI-generated images, Jakes has returned to preaching at The Potter's House and described the experience as a spiritual awakening.
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T.D. Jakes reveals he suffered 'massive' heart attack during church sermon
Photo: Getty Images Pastor T.D. Jakes has revealed that the life-threatening medical emergency he suffered during a church sermon last year was a “massive” heart attack. During an interview with TODAY on Wednesday (March 26), Jakes, a pastor at The Potter’s House in Dallas, Texas, opened up about suffering a heart attack onstage during his … Continued
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T.D. Jakes discloses ‘massive heart attack’ as cause of November health crisis
(RNS) — Bishop T.D. Jakes has disclosed that the medical incident that occurred as he spoke before his Dallas megachurch in November was a “massive heart attack.” “I didn’t really realize what was happening to me onstage until I got to the hospital in an ambulance and fussing that it happened onstage, by the way, because I didn’t want it to happen, and the doctor leaned over my ear and said, ‘You had a massive heart attack,’” Jakes said on NBC’s…
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