Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Celebrities Almost Felled By Food

By: whatever

whatever — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:49:00 +0000

the peanut story was a media cover up…reagan had a heart attack…

By: rod

rod — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:14:00 +0000

Reagan nearly choked on a peanut? Must’ve resulted in permanent brain damage…that’s the easiest explanation for his maniacal insistance on de-regulation, and here we are paying for it all these years later.
Who’d have thought that it’d have taken this long to find the real culprit for the current financial meltdown?

By: dale

dale — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:59:00 +0000

Once I got a piece of chicken breast caught in my throat. I made the international sign for choking. No one stepped forward to help. So I died.

By: Dale

Dale — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:54:00 +0000

Damn you Mike Deaver!

By: paul

paul — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:02:47 +0000

My wife started choking on a dried chick-pea once, and I had to jump up behind her on the couch to deliver the Heimlich.

Once the pea was dislodged and fell to the floor, she came-to…looked at me and asked in a stern voice, “What the hell are you doing?!”

We still laugh about that to this day.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:44:11 +0000

I actually have a few things to tell on this subject. First of all, regarding the celebrities choking- i have read about a few more in the past that have been missed out on here-
Nicole Kidman-choked on a vegetable and was given the Heimlich.
Kelly Brook- choked on a piece of steak-the story said that the Heimlcih move wasnt working on her, and that a waiter had to stick his fingers down her throat to get it out-apparantly she turned blue.

Matt Damon- also got a piece of steak stuck in his throat and was saved by Brad Pitt.
Leo DiCaprio (Hunk)– choked on a piece of raw carrot, and his mum heimliched it out of him.

My own experiences-i can only describe as horrific and terrifying.
My boyfriend choked badly on a piece of steak once-didn’t chew it properly (steak is hazardous!) He turned blue, and i seriously thought he was going to actually choke to death. His mates were thumping him on the back and heimlichin him for ages-it was awful-it eventually came loose.

My own terrifying ordeal was when i swallowed 2 paracetamol tablets at the sam time, and they somehow got stuck together in my throat- absolutely AWFUL feeling. I was alone at my kitchen sink, just gagging and retching for ages. Thank god i eventually vomited-sending the pills up and out of my throat.

I cannot begin to imagine how horrible it must be to actually choke to DEATH!! Choking happens far too often, it scares the hell out of me.

By: Karen

Karen — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:40:46 +0000

Not choking but more of a severe difficulty breathing. I was at a movie theater and was eating some of the nachos- I accidentally inhaled a piece of chip that was too big and it got caught, side ways, in my throat. Because it was not the flat way, I could breath, but just barely. Water just went around it so, I went to the consession stand to ask for some bread and they had no clue what I was talking about (hot dog bun- duh!) finally they got me what I asked for and I was fine. Haven’t had the nachos since, though.

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:35:39 +0000

There’s something drastically wrong with Pierce Brosnan’s reasoning!

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:26:07 +0000

the only near death by choking situation i had involved spaghetti and pizza (melty cheese), and in both cases seeing no help forthcoming from my parents i just reached in as far as i could, got a hold on the food and pulled it out. fun.

By: What?

What? — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:49:37 +0000

Hey Ian, maybe Mama Cass isn’t on the list because she DIDN’T choke on a ham sandwich. She died of heart failure.