James Corden has opened up about the emergency eye surgery he had, which was performed while he was still 'awake'.
The Late Late Show with James Corden host was forced to cancel several episodes of his talk show last month, after he was rushed to surgery to sort out an injury he suffered in 2012.
The 41-year-old spoke about what happened during an appearance on Wednesday's The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
James said: "For some reason, about a year ago, it flared up again — this little sort of scratch on my eyeball — so I’ve been seeing doctors a lot."
James continued: "I've been looking after it. About a few weeks ago, three weeks ago or something like that, I woke up and I couldn’t open my eye, which meant I couldn’t open either of my eyes."
James added: "It just hurt."
The Carpool Karaoke star said that he went for treatment and the doctor advised that he got immediate surgery.
He continued: "The doctor I've been speaking with said, ‘Look, I think we have to sort this out. I think this has been happening too many times,'
"He took one look at my eye, and he said, ‘We’re gonna operate on it now.’ And I said, ‘But I’ve got a show at 5 pm’
"And he said, 'No, you don’t.' He said, ‘You don’t have a show 'til the earliest next week. You’ve got to do this right now.'''
As the operation was last-minute, James said that he as "quite grateful" for this as he "didn’t have time to dread it."
Revealing the details of the surgery, James said: "It’s the strangest thing 'cause you're awake, but it’s numb so you can’t feel anything."
Conscious throughout the procedure, James revealed: "They clamp your eye open like A Clockwork Orange and then you can see what they’re doing, but you can’t feel it because it’s numb."
James announced that he was unable to film new episodes of The Late Late Show on Instagram, when he knew that he was having surgery.
He had been filming from home due to the coronavirus pandemic.
He shared on Instagram at the time: "I am doing well and recovering, but won't be able to film new episode for a few nights.
"Thank you to everyone who has been watching the Late Late Shows from my garage. I'll be back soon. Stay safe and well everybody. x."
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