Peep Show star Robert Webb had ‘two days to live’ before undergoing emergency heart surgery
PEEP Show’s Robert Webb was just two days from death when docs discovered a heart murmur.
The comic said it was “touch and go” if he’d survive.
He had surgery in November after failing a medical before filming a new series of Channel 4 sitcom Back, with pal David Mitchell.
Robert said: “I just assumed that’s the booze.
“I thought this is what you feel like when you’re 47 and you treat your body like a skip.
“I’d get tired very quickly. I didn’t realise how unwell I was.”
Doctors diagnosed a mitral valve prolapse and said he needed an op.
Medics tried to defer it when he went into hospital.
But he recalled the cardiologist telling the surgeon: “You can’t send him home for five days, he isn’t going to last two days.”
Robert said he lost two-thirds of his blood cells during the surgery adding: “It was all a bit touch and go.”
He told The Sunday Times he has quit cigs but found it difficult to give up booze.
And he admitted skipping an Alcoholics Anonymous-type meeting because comic Russell Brand would be there, adding: “I think I’d rather have liver failure.”
Robert said: “The drinking crawled up so gradually that I was slow-killing myself.
“It was certainly an addiction at the end, a dependency.
“I drank a lot of beer, during the day, on my own.”
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