British actress Anita Dobson has offered a moving update on Queen rocker Sir Brian May after the rock guitarist suffered a “minor stroke” last year, revealing that he is taking his recovery one day at a time.
Dobson, 75 assured fans that her husband was in a “stable” condition after May revealed in an earlier Instagram post that he had lost control over his left arm following the stroke in September 2024.
She was speaking to The Sun newspaper about her return to UK television show EastEnders after a 37 year hiatus when she gave the update on May’s health.
The actress married the 77-year-old musician in 2000 and said the health scare had reminded her that “life is precious”.
“Brian is stable now”, she said via the UK newspaper.
Dobson also reassured fans that May had “never been happier” since they had moved from London to the countryside.
“To see what it has done to Brian … he loves it. He loves the birds and the animals,” she said.
“He feeds all the birds and the badgers, foxes and pheasants. It’s like running a pub for animals.”
May previously said the health scare had been “a little scary” but praised the “fantastic care” he received from Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey in a video posted to Instagram on September 4.
At the time, he said he was “grounded” after being advised not to drive, fly or do any activity which would send his heart rate too high.
Since then, Dobson said they have since been “spending time at home” and “taking each day as it comes”.
“It makes you realise that at any minute it could be you. You don’t have to necessarily be old, it could be anyone,” she said.
It’s not the first time May has shocked fans with a health scare, as the 77-year-old previously revealed that he “could have died” after being rushed to hospital following a heart attack in 2020.
In an announcement to fans at the time, May revealed that his doctor drove him to the hospital after he started feeling the symptoms of a heart attack.
“But I turned out to have three arteries that were congested and in danger of blocking the supply of blood to my heart,” he said at the time.
May said he found the experience shocking because he thought he was “a very healthy guy”.
“Nothing could tell me that I was about to be in real, real trouble, because I could have died from that, from the blockages that were there,” he said.
– with PA.