Robert Fripp is healthier than “perhaps ever” following heart attack in 2025
Robert Fripp has provided a health update after suffering a heart attack in 2025, but he still can’t work out why the doctor decided to shave his genitalia for his operation.
Last May, Fripp revealed news of his health struggles in a YouTube video, sharing that he began to suffer from chest pains that he believed to be acid reflux before he flew to Bergamo, Italy, for the Orchestra Of Crafty Guitarists event at Castione della Presolana
Upon arriving in Italy, Fripp was immediately taken to a hospital, where he was taken to intensive care ahead of undergoing two bouts of emergency surgery.
Now, a year later, Fripp explained how he’s in a great place physically, telling Uncut in a new interview, “Today, I look on it as a benevolent redirection of my life.”
Fripp continued, “I go to the gym regularly. I’m deadlifting currently, at best, 120 kilograms, bench pressing 75 kilograms, doing squatting with weights, stretching, balancing, yoga.”
He proudly added, “I haven’t been this healthy or present within myself in decades, perhaps ever.”
However, at the time, Fripp was bemused by the doctor’s decision to shave his genitalia despite operating on his heart, sharing in 2025, “I was in A&E not quite knowing what was going on other than I knew they were going to do something, and an orderly came along and shaved my balls.”
Fripp continued, “Now the dear man, I really didn’t wish his job on him at that point. Now this is the thing. So you’re concerned with my heart, fine. What are you doing shaving my balls?”
A year later, he’s still equally confused by the doctor’s decision, telling Uncut, “I was in A&E, they hooked me up to a monitor, and the next step was this dear man turned up and shaved my balls. I thought, ‘Well, if this is something to do with my heart, why is he shaving my balls?”
Despite the doctor shaving him without permission, the 80-year-old is thankfully back on his feet and in good health.
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