Country music star Colt Ford is opening up about the heart attack that nearly took his life, not once, but twice.

The 55-year-old singer (born Jason Farris Brown) from Athens, Georgia had finished performing at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row in Gilbert, Arizona in early April, when he suffered a heart attack.

He was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit at the Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona, where he received treatment.

Nearly a month later, last May, Ford revealed that he actually died twice, and admitted he was still not, ‘100 percent out of the woods.’

Now nearly a year after the incident, Ford is opening up about his road to recovery in a new interview with Fox News.

After being clinically ᴅᴇᴀᴅ twice and slipping into a coma for eight days, Ford said he woke up and saw that in itself as a message from God.

Country music star Colt Ford is opening up about the heart attack that nearly took his life, not once, but twice.

The 55-year-old singer (born Jason Farris Brown) from Athens, Georgia had finished performing at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row in Gilbert, Arizona in early April, when he suffered a heart attack 

‘God just told me, I need to sit down and pay attention to what’s going on around me,’ Ford said in the new interview.

‘And I think try to use it for … something as positive as I can … no matter what it is, I’m meant to have that second chance. That just doesn’t happen. You know?’ he added.

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‘It is such a gift. I realize how precious some things are now, and it makes me focus a little bit differently,’ he continued.

Ford added that the two-time near-death experience has been, ‘pretty profound, for sure.’

‘It just makes you realize some of the things you think are important or that maybe you were chasing as a younger man or a younger person … they’re not really that important,’ he added.

‘I’ve always been an alpha male kind of guy. And all of a sudden, I wake up out of a coma and I can’t even feed myself ice out of a Styrofoam cup. It’s very humbling,’ he admitted.

When asked if he had any symptoms leading up to his hospitalization, Ford admitted, ‘It was kind of the perfect storm for me.’

‘I had already been on a weight loss journey. I became famous as a fat guy, and I was working on my weight, and I was down a bunch,’ he said.

‘God just told me, I need to sit down and pay attention to what’s going on around me,’ Ford said in the new interview

‘And I think try to use it for … something as positive as I can … no matter what it is, I’m meant to have that second chance. That just doesn’t happen. You know?’ he added

‘I had already been on a weight loss journey. I became famous as a fat guy, and I was working on my weight, and I was down a bunch,’ he said.

‘So that’s what I reminded all my friends. You were looking at me and going, “Oh, Colt’s doing good.” Yeah, but you need to check, because you don’t realize anything,’ Ford admitted

‘So that’s what I reminded all my friends. You were looking at me and going, “Oh, Colt’s doing good.” Yeah, but you need to check, because you don’t realize anything,’ Ford admitted.

‘Healthy people or people who haven’t been through this, they have no concept of it, I didn’t. This happened on April 4. I woke up 8 days later,’ he said, adding that he and his wife Megan were planning on going to the Kentucky Derby a month later.

‘I’m like, “Oh baby, we’ll still go.” And she’s like, “You’re not even gonna be outta here by then,’ Ford joked.

He added that since the heart attack, he scaled back on fried food, adding, ‘I broke the cravings for a lot of that stuff … I don’t want to go eat it.’