'I didn't have a choice': The Wanted star Max George gives candid health update after 'sensation in chest'

Max George has given fans a fresh health update after undergoing shock heart surgery.

The Wanted star has revealed he had a second operation weeks after getting fitted with a pacemaker after it caused a 'flickering sensation' in his chest. The 36-year-old had the device, which helps control the heart rate, fitted in December.

Speaking to The Sun On Sunday, George said: "I thought I was on the road to recovery but when I was told I needed a second operation I was nervous, as pulling the pacemaker wires out of the heart wall risks bleeding on the heart.

“I didn’t have a choice, though. I had to have it done.”

He added: “I was trying to get back to good health but was still having a flickering sensation for weeks after I had my pacemaker fitted and it was gradually getting worse and worse. When my heart rate went up, it was causing a shock in my heart which was making me jump all the time. My chest was shaking.”

George said he felt “really nervous” the night before the surgery, adding: “I didn’t sleep much. I was worried it could go wrong again and felt anxious that it could bleed out.”

He said he was not allowed to listen to music during the first operation, when he had the pacemaker fitted, but was able to during the second.

“Obviously an operation is a scary thing, but the music really helped and the nurse was reassuring,” he said.

“Slide Away (Oasis) started to play and I tried to take myself into my own world”, he said. “Afterwards I was just pleased it had gone successfully.”

Salford-born George previously revealed he would be having a lung biopsy, a procedure that involves a small piece of lung tissue being removed and sent to a laboratory to be examined and checked for abnormal cells, according to the NHS.

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