Swizz Beatz Opens Up About Doctors Telling Him He Might Never Walk Again Following Past Health Issues

Swizz Beatz opened up about some of his past health issues during a recent appearance on the Jennifer Hudson show. He revealed that doctors told him that it was so severe that he might not walk again. 

“I was going hard,” he explained to Hudson. “When you come from nothing, and you finally get success, get a piece of what you thought you could never get from your surroundings — we just have a habit of going hard as men, you know, and it caught up to me.” 

The producer continued, “I remember staying up for four days straight just over-pushing it. It messed up my immune system — I had spinal meningitis.”

Swizz explained that at the hospital, a doctor bluntly told him that he would most likely survive the illness but probably never be able to walk again. 

“And I remember going to the hospital, and the doctor was cold. He was cold as ice,” Swizz said. “As soon as I walked in, he said, ‘Okay, you might not die, but you’ll never walk again.’” 

That was the first thing they said to me when I went into the hospital. But I was in so much pain, I was like, ‘let’s get on to it.’ But, Alhamdulillah [Praise be to Allah], I learned how to walk again, I came back, and I beat the odds with that one. And now, I try to take my health a little bit more serious.”

Check out the interview below.