kelsey grammerKelsey Grammer has revealed that his “mild heart attack” in May wasn’t quite so “mild” as they claimed.

The former Frasier star started to feel symptoms while paddleboarding with his wife Camille near their home in Hawaii and was flown to hospital in Honolulu.

He told Entertainment Tonight this week: “We originally said it was just a mild heart attack, and it actually wasn’t very mild. They had to blast me twice and get me started all over again.

“My heart stopped, and Camille was patting my head and she said, ‘That’s when you looked up at me and said, ‘I’m going now.’ And then off I went. And then [the doctor] said, ‘I’m going to need to zap him.’”

“It felt like somebody was actually trying to tear my chest apart with the jaws of life. As I lay there dying, I said, ‘Please, I can not do this. I don’t want to see anything; I don’t want to see any light; I don’t want to have any little adventures that make me want to get out of this life. I need to finish this one.’”

He added that he’s “doing fine” now but is preferring virtual exertions to real life ones: “I’m playing a lot of Wii!”