Susan Lucci is in good health following her second emergency heart surgery last year. Speaking with People at the 75th Annual Writers Guild Awards this past weekend, the "All My Children" star had an update on her recovery. "I'm doing really well," Lucci told the outlet. "I always keep an eye on myself, what's going on." Lucci had a stent placed in her artery in January 2022 after doctors discovered an 80% artery blockage caused by cholesterol and inserted another stent in her heart to fix the issue. "It is so far so good," the actress told the outlet of the procedure.
This is the second heart surgery for Lucci. In 2020, she revealed she had a near fatal heart attack in 2018 when she discovered she had two blocked cardiac arteries after experiencing chest discomfort.
She explained how she initially ignored her symptoms during an appearance on "Good Day New York" last month. "Like most women, I felt my symptoms would go away," Lucci recalled. "Oh, it'll go away, it'll go away.Then, the third time it came to me, I couldn't ignore it.
I had a very big pressure on my chest, like an elephant person pressing on my chest." Lucci recounted how cardiologist Richard Shlofmitz discovered she had a 90% blockage in her main artery and a 75% blockage in the adjacent artery.