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T.D. Jakes<\/a>, the founder of The Potter’s House, recently revealed that a “slight health incident<\/a>” he suffered on stage in November 2024 was actually a massive heart attack.<\/p>\n

“You know, I didn’t really realize what was happening to me on stage until I got to the hospital in an ambulance. And [I was] fussing that it happened on stage, by the way, because I didn’t want it to happen,” Jakes told NBC’s Craig Melvin on the “Today” show<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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“The doctor leaned over in my ear and said, ‘You had a massive heart attack.’ And the reason I didn’t realize it is I had no symptoms that they say: no numbness, no sharp pain, no anything. I just kind of drifted off to sleep. I didn’t know what it was, but I almost died,” Jakes added.<\/p>\n

Jakes, who made an emotional return to the pulpit on New Year’s Eve, further explained how his heart stopped while he had been preaching,\u00a0The Christian Post<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

“He [the doctor] said five minutes later, I would have been dead on arrival. The right side of my heart had completely stopped giving blood at all. As long as I was up preaching, I felt fine. When I sat down, the adrenaline dropped and exposed the fact I was preaching with half of my heart closed through a clot,” Jakes explained. “They had to go get it.”<\/p>\n

According to the megachurch pastor, Jakes claimed that he found himself in a “cloud-enveloped space” during the near-death experience, which he suggested was a glimpse of the afterlife.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“In my mind, I was in a quiet, peaceful, serene, white-enveloped, cloud-enveloped space,” he explained. “I was on my way out. Afterwards, in retrospect, it was such a privilege to stand on the other side to get a little glimpse of what that might be like \u2026I think it was absolutely amazing.”<\/p>\n

Jakes’s remarks also come as he is currently facing a defamation lawsuit amid allegations of sexual assault and misconduct. Last month, 57-year-old Timothy Anderson of Manatee County, Florida, alleged that Jakes attempted to kiss him in the 1990s while he served as his youth pastor.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Pastor Richard Youngblood and his brother, Duane Youngblood, alleged that Jakes sexually assaulted them when they were young, a claim which Jakes denies and has filed a defamation suit<\/a> against Duane last year. However, Duane Youngblood’s attorney, Tyrone A. Blackburn, supported a motion seeking to dismiss the defamation lawsuit in a legal response that includes Anderson’s claim.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During Wednesday’s interview, Melvin asked Jakes if he vehemently denies the allegations, to which the megachurch pastor declared, “Absolutely!”<\/p>\n

“I haven’t seen this person for 40 years, and this particular individual has been arrested as a child predator twice and convicted,” he said of Duane Youngblood.<\/p>\n

Jakes added that he was unsure whether more accusers would come forward with claims against him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I don’t know where we are right now. From the looks of last year and how many black celebrities and celebrities in general have had to endure this kind of stuff, I don’t know where we are right now,” Jakes said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“I think that there is a hopelessness, \u2026.desperate people do desperate things. And they filed a motion to have it (defamation lawsuit) dismissed. So far, it’s been denied. We filed 600 pages of information. I don’t know what’s next. I didn’t see this coming.”<\/p>\n

WATCH: TODAY Exclusive: T.D. Jakes Speaks Out on ‘Massive’ Heart Attack<\/h2>\n