Country star fights back after near-death and addresses his fans: “I love you all”

Colt Ford seems to be doing much better, and that is certainly good news for fans of the country star.

And we know Ford is doing better because he posted on Instagram for the second time in as many weeks.

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“We did a little cardio rehab today,” the singer said in a video he posted there on Friday.

“Louis, did you do something?” he asked, nodding to his dog, who was lying next to him on the sofa. “He’s wagging his tail. He ran from the bedroom to the sofa. Didn’t you do something too, Louis?”

Ford then addressed his fans directly.

“We love you,” he said. “I’m trying to get better every day. I’m trying to get back on my feet. I miss you so much. Have a great weekend and a great fourth. Love you all.”

Among those who responded was country music star Jake Owen.

“Love you buddy,” he wrote.

There were also numerous congratulations and prayers for Ford.

It was a remarkable turnaround for Ford after he collapsed and died twice after a performance in Arizona in early April – of course he was resuscitated each time.

He revealed some details of what happened later that month when he called into Big D and Bubba’s radio show.

“It was a traumatic, crazy experience,” Ford told the hosts. “I didn’t even remember coming here to do a show in Phoenix.”

Ford had just boarded his tour bus after his performance at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row Bar when he texted his fiancée, “Hi baby.”

“And then I dropped dead,” he said.

Ford said that luckily his band came by to check on him and found him. And, he said, country music star Brantley Gilbert took care of getting him to the hospital and eventually arranged for him to be transferred to another hospital when the hospital they were at didn’t have the proper equipment to treat Ford’s heart problem.

“He said, ‘I don’t care what you do, take him to the other hospital,'” Ford said of Gilbert.

Ford said he died during transport to the other hospital.

“You brought me back,” he said. “You saved my life. The Lord had more for me to do.”

Ford said he actually died twice during the ordeal.

“I think it happened on the third, and I didn’t wake up until the tenth,” he said.

He added that one of his doctors told him he did not give him a one percent chance of survival.

“He said, ‘I would give you a 0.1 percent chance of survival,'” Ford said.

“My body and my heart were so traumatic,” he said. “I had three stents put in.”

Ford, who worked closely with Toby Keith, Jamey Johnson and Jason Aldean, had some health problems. Taste of Country reported last year that he was battling myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease.

He also reportedly suffered from eye cancer and had to undergo surgery three years ago.

Ford, whose real name is Jason Farris Brown, is a former professional golfer. He has released eight studio albums, his first in 2008 and his latest, “Must Be Country,” in 2023.