An American TV broadcaster has revealed she suffered the "beginnings of a stroke" live on air on Saturday morning (local time).
Julie Chin, of Tulsa NBC affiliate KJRH, was rushed to hospital after she began stumbling on her words and struggling to read the teleprompter in front of her.
Chin tried to push through for a few seconds before realising she couldn't complete the script and was unable to speak.
"I'm sorry, something is going on with me this morning and I apologise to everybody," she said, before passing the broadcast over to the weather team, "Let's just go ahead and send it on to meteorologist Annie Brown".
Brown tried to comfort Chin by saying "we love you so much, we all have those days".
But Chin didn't return to the broadcast for the remainder of the show on Saturday and revealed why in a Facebook post.
"The past few days are still a little bit of a mystery, but my doctors believe I had the beginnings of a stroke live on the air Saturday morning. Some of you witnessed it firsthand, and I’m so sorry that happened," she wrote on Facebook.
"My co-workers recognised the emergency situation unfolding and called 911. Anne, Jordan, TJ, and Kaden, I’m so grateful for your quick action."
Chin said the episode seemed to "come out of nowhere" and she felt "great before the show" before things started to happen during the broadcast.
"First, I lost partial vision in one eye. A little bit later my hand and arm went numb. Then, I knew I was in big trouble when my mouth would not speak the words that were right in front of me on the teleprompter," she explained.
"If you were watching Saturday morning, you know how desperately I tried to steer the show forward, but the words just wouldn’t come."
Chin has been going through a range of tests in hospital, which have "all come back great".
"At this point, Doctors think I had the beginnings of a stroke, but not a full stroke. There are still lots of questions, and lots to follow up on, but the bottom line is I should be just fine," she said.
She revealed she would be back broadcasting in a few days and urged people to learn more about strokes.
This comes after a young Kiwi, Jessica Penberthy, told AM last week about how she has suffered three strokes in her life.
She said more support and education are needed for young Kiwis who suffer strokes, with the current systems in New Zealand designed for older people.
Strokes are one of New Zealand's biggest killers and it doesn't just affect older people.
They can affect anyone and 25–30 percent of them are experienced by people under the age of 65. About a quarter are people aged between 18 and 54. The number of people experiencing strokes will rise by 40 percent over the next decade, according to the Stroke Foundation NZ.
A stroke is a brain attack, which is a sudden interruption of blood flow to part of the brain causing it to stop working and eventually damaging brain cells, the Foundation said.
