The sister of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' alum Nicholas Brendon shared an announcement saying the actor's well being scare, which she described as a 'cardiac incident' that he is skilled earlier than.
Actor Nicholas Brendon, who performed Xander Harris in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, was hospitalized following a second “cardiac incident.” Nicholas’s sister broke the information in regards to the 51-year-old actor’s well being incident through Instagram on August 16. She shared pictures of Nicholas on a stretcher behind an ambulance, in a wheelchair within the hospital, and sleeping on a hospital mattress. In her caption, Nicholas’s sister defined what occurred and clarified that he’s “doing tremendous now” after the well being disaster.
“Nicky sends his love and needed me to apologize that he hasn’t been going stay as a lot these days and to provide everybody an replace. Nicky is doing tremendous now however he needed to be rushed to emergency about two weeks in the past due to a cardiac incident (tachycardia/arrhythmia),” his sibling wrote. She reminded followers that Nicholas “had an analogous incident” final 12 months following his “second spinal surgical procedure” for Cauda Equina Syndrome, the place the nerve roots within the lumbar backbone are compressed and thus lower off sensation and motion.
Nicholas’s sister concluded her assertion by saying that the actor is “attempting to get a little bit extra relaxation and has been concentrating on medical appointments.” Nicholas’ well being points reportedly worsened final 12 months, which is when he acquired spinal surgical procedure, after he briefly served time in Indiana’s Vigo County Jail following his arrest for allegedly acquiring pharmaceuticals by fraud in August 2021.
On the time, Nicholas was pulled over by cops for “driving erratically” and he handed them a California ID belonging to his twin brother Kelton Shultz, in line with the arrest report obtained by HollywoodLife. Authorities searched Nicholas’s automobile and located medication (together with a prescription for amphetamine salts) that had been prescribed to Kelton, not Nicholas. He was held at Vigo County Jail however was launched by the courtroom. The Legal Minds star was charged for failure to determine and acquiring a prescription by fraud. He took a plea deal in February 2022.
Nicholas has had a number of run-ins with the legislation. In October 2017, he was concerned in an alleged home violence dispute along with his girlfriend in Palm Springs. The incident led to Nicholas being arrested and charged with violating a protecting order and felony inflicting damage on a partner or cohabitant. He was launched the subsequent day on $50,000 bail, however was nonetheless charged with home violence.
Again in 2015, Nicholas allegedly attacked his girlfriend and was arrested a number of instances that 12 months. He went to rehab three completely different instances for substance abuse, despair and alcoholism. He later spoke about his struggles on a Dec. 2015 episode of Dr. Phil, the place he revealed that he had tried suicide a number of instances.