Jerry “The King” Lawler has provided a new update on his health following a stroke he suffered in September 2025, He previously suffered strokes in 2023 and 2018. In an interview with Action News 5, the 76-year-old has opened up about his recovery process.
“Oh gosh, I get asked that question 50 times a day. I like to say something I saw on the news recently was people say, ‘Uh, six or seven…’ I’ll get up to seven and boop, somehow, I’ll go back to six.
You can’t know when you’re gonna have ‘em, and it’s just, boom, you have it. I was in Florida by myself and woke up one morning and everything was messed up, and I had to call Lauren (McBride) to come down from Memphis and to get me from the hospital and everything down there.” H/T to Fightful for the transcription
Elsewhere in the interview, Lawler revealed that the recent stroke left him colorblind. “Because I’m colorblind and I can’t see the colors, and this is black and white,” Lawler noted while discussing a painting during the segment.
