Jamie Dornan Hospitalized With 'Heart Attack Symptoms' During Trip to Portugal

Jamie Dornan

Jamie Dornan was reportedly hospitalized while on vacation in Portugal, fearing that he may be suffering a heart attack, at least according to his friend and Scottish broadcaster Gordon Smart.

The revelation was made during Smart's recent appearance on the BBC’s The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected podcast, where he explained that both he and the Fifty Shades of Grey actor were supposed to be enjoying a trip when they suddenly became very ill and ended up in the hospital.

The pair reportedly woke up just one day into their getaway not feeling quite right and initially brushed it off to one too many drinks the night before. But things took a scary turn when Smart revealed that he felt a “tingling in his left hand and tickling in his left arm” that made him think it was “the sign of the start of a heart attack.”

“Now, I’m a fairly healthy guy but once you start thinking, you’re having a heart attack, you’re pretty sure that you’re convincing yourself that you are having one,” he said.

Smart, 43, explained that shortly after he noticed the strange symptoms, Dornan, 41, also began to experience them. "Jamie said, ‘Dear me. Gordon, about 20 minutes after you left, my left arm went numb, my left leg went numb, my right leg went numb, and I found myself in the back of an ambulance.'"

As the pair left the hospital, Smart claimed the paramedics asked them for a selfie, "which is really what you want when you’re being wheeled out of a hospital room."

However, a rep for Dornan has since shared with ET Online reporters that Dornan was "never hospitalized" and "went on to play a round of golf the day after the incident," which the publication said he won.

A week after the scary ordeal, Smart said he received an explanation for what may have caused their heart attack-like symptoms: toxic caterpillars, more specifically, pine processionary moth caterpillars–which have tiny hairs filled with a protein known to be a toxin, per a study published by the National Library of Medicine.

“And it turns out that there are caterpillars on golf courses in the south of Portugal that have been killing people’s dogs and giving men in their 40s heart attacks," Smart recalled. “It turns out we’d brushed up against hairy processionary caterpillars and have been very lucky to come out of that one alive.”

“So there’s my story; the good news is it wasn’t a caffeine overdose, it wasn’t a hangover — it was a poisonous, toxic caterpillar,” he added.

Safe to say we're adding toxic caterpillars to our list of nightmare-inducing insects we definitely don't want to be bit by.

Parade has reached out to Dornan’s reps for further comment.

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