Legendary radio and television host Matt Pinfield is officially out of a coma and on his way to recovery. The 63-year-old former MTV VJ from East Brunswick told the Hollywood Reporter he is out of the ICU and at a rehabilitation center in Los Angeles.
“Guys, I’m alive,” Pinfield told the Hollywood Reporter. “I’m recovering and am going to come back swinging. I was unresponsive for two months. Friends were thinking they were coming to see me for the last time. The doctors never expected me to speak or to walk again.”
Pinfield suffered a stroke Jan. 6 and was “incapable of moving or making cognitive decisions.” At that time, his eldest daughter, Jessica, had a temporary conservatorship over him. Pinfield noted he “was close to not making it” and credits Jessica as “the one who saved his life.”
Once he emerged from the coma, the host stated that friends noted he immediately began to talk about music. “My friends said I went on about ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ and how they couldn’t keep up with what I was saying,” he says. “They were, like, ‘Yeah, he’s still got that brain.’”
Pinfield acknowledged that recovering would take some time, but he vows to return to work and eventually do what he loves.
