Rumours were rife that celebrated Nigerian comedian Julius Agwu was battling a strange illness but nobody could particularly place a finger on it. This became even more so as the entertainer chose to keep mute about the issue.
However, the ‘musicomedy’ champion has decided to open up on his near death experience.
Speaking with Yes Magazine recently, the Theatre Arts graduate of the University of Port Harcourt described his survival as “God at work and that is why I will forever thank Him”
He revealed how at some point, he started noticing that he was losing weight, which got many people wondering. According to him, some concerned people proffered solutions, both medical and spiritual, while others resorted to murmur and gossip.
Agwu said that sometime in May, things heightened when he had a seizure at home while his wife, Ibiere, battled to save him, he ran out of breath, in an almost lifeless state.
With the likely consequences starring her in the face, he said, Ibiere got their maid and the security man to get him to their hospital in Lekki.
At the hospital, Agwu narrates, the doctors battled for hours and, upon stabilizing him, he immediately left for the United States of America with his wife.
Upon arriving the States, Houston to be precise, arrangements were made at a Hospital. After a series of tests, two lumps were discovered in his brain, he explains.
The artiste recalls how the lumps had been ‘messing up his health and causing his incessant weight loss.’ The Caucasian surgeons Immediately went to work, operating on him for about 4 hours on Tuesday, May 12.
Upon being discharged, Julius said that he rested in the US for sometime before recently returning home.
Julius Agwu started drawing attention to himself sometime last year when fans noticed that he had been losing weight and colour. Things got so bad that his looks became the attention of a heated twitter debate in December last year.
