'I am lucky to be here': Rosie O'Donnell, 50, survives heart attack

 BHR HollyWood Reports Rosie O'Donnell has revealed she is lucky to be alive after suffering a 'widow maker' heart attack last week.

The comedian, 50, urged her female fans to seek medical help if they suffer symptoms of cardiac arrest, after she risked her life by ignoring her illness for a day.

In a poem about her near-death experience, posted on her blog, she described how she put her symptoms down to helping a 'heavy' woman from a car.


Despite not seeking medical help Rosie did take an aspirin, which may have saved her life.
'Saved by a TV commercial, literally,' she wrote.

The next day Rosie did visit her doctor who gave her an EKG and fitted a stent.

She was told the terrifying news that her left anterior descending artery was 99per cent blocked.

'They call this type of heart attack the widow maker,' she revealed. 'I am lucky to be here.'
And she urged her fans to be alert for symptoms.

'200,000 women die of heart attacks every year in the US,' she wrote.
'Know the symptoms ladies, listen to the voice inside, the one we all so easily ignore. CALL 911 - save urself.' I'm Big Blac this is your BHR HollyWood Report