Jeremy Clarkson reveals new health concern just months after emergency heart surgery

Jeremy Clarkson has revealed a new health concern just months since he underwent emergency heart surgery.

The former Top Gear host has been pretty open about his health in recent years, even discussing his time on Ozempic and the lifestyle changes he’s had to make.

And last year, Clarkson said he ended up being ‘days from death’ due to a serious scare.

The 64-year-old experienced a ‘sudden deterioration’ of his health while holidaying in the Indian Ocean.

When he got back to the UK, he was eventually rushed to hospital where consultants issued him a brutal wake-up call.

But having made those various changes to his life since, he’s now got a new problem to deal with that’s causing him some pain in his back.

Clarkson underwent emergency surgery last year. (Peter Fox - Formula 1/Formula 1 via Getty Images)

Clarkson first noticed the worrying symptoms that developed into his heart scare after taking a dive from a boat in the Seychelles.

“I always try and dive off a boat on every holiday because at my age you never know when your last dive is going to be, or your last anything, for that matter,” he told The Sunday Times.

“When I finally reached the beach my lungs were full of water and I realised I can’t do it anymore."

Clarkson felt ‘clammy’ when he woke up in the days after once back home, with a pain in his chest, but initially ignored his symptoms.

However, when he began to feel ‘pins and needles’ in his left arm, he finally sought help and was rushed to hospital.

A CAT scan then revealed that two of the star’s vital arteries were occluded and he quickly underwent surgery to insert two stents into his chest to keep the blood vessels open. While a heart attack was ruled out for Clarkson, he’s made changes to his diet since to help his health.

But that doesn’t quite help his latest situation as he wrote in his Sunday Times column: “I have a trapped nerve in my back at the moment.”

He says he's now got a trapped nerve. (Qian Jun/MB Media/Getty Images)

Having reviewed the Mercedes G 580 electric SUV, the car pro wrote that sitting still in it was pretty much impossible.

“It’s fine if I’m not doing anything, but in the G 580, not doing anything is impossible because it pitches and yaws and rolls all the time, and you never have any idea what it’s going to do next,” he wrote.

“So you can’t ever brace yourself.”

In most cases, back pain like this will resolve itself with mild cases often lasting up to eight weeks. Exercises can be done to help relieve this as well as taking pain killers or using hot or cold compresses.