WWE Hall Of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler Reveals He Suffered Brain Damage During His Recent Stroke

WWE Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler revealed last month that he suffered a stroke prior to his appearance at WrestleMania 34.

Lawler revealed during an episode of his podcast “Dinner With The King” details of the incident which occured on March 21st which left him without the ability to speak for three days.

On the most recent episode of his “Dinner With The King” podcast, Lawler gave some more information on the situation as he revealed that he suffered some brain damage from the stroke.

Here is what Lawler had to say regarding the incident:

“I had my first follow up with a neurologist, Dr. Weaver here in Memphis that came to see me while I was in Intensive Care and everything with my stroke. I had to get a cat scan today; but, the cool thing is he showed me a picture, brought me back and showed me a picture of my brain and this was not something I wanted to hear. He said, ‘Let me show you your brain & your brain damage.’ I said, ‘What?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, take a look.’

“So anyway he shows me the scan of my brain and there was a spot on it, a dark spot, about the size of a quarter. He said, ‘When you were in the hospital that spot was solid white because it was solid blood. Now the blood has been absorbed and that is cells that have been damaged.’ I said, ‘So that amount of cells were damaged?’ He said, ‘Oh yeah, you’re just very fortunate…if that amount, that size, had been further down inside your brain, you could have lost the whole use of the whole left side of your body.’ I have no residual effects at all, I’m lucky.”

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(H/T our friends at Ringside.com for the transcriptions.)