Jeremy Clarkson makes shock admission about his death

Jeremy Clarkson recently admitted he was oblivious to how close he was to death last year.

In a candid revelation with The Sun, Jeremy confessed he "had no idea" how critically ill he was before undergoing life-saving heart surgery in October. 

For those unversed, his health took a sudden downturn, as visible in the latest series of, Clarkson's Farm. The series details how his plans for harvest and launching his pub, The Farmer's Dog, abruptly went awry.

"I had no idea, no idea at all. I just thought, ‘Well, I am working very hard’," he told the publication. 

He explained how the show's narrative shifts dramatically, "The rest is, ‘Oh, here he is farming and Kaleb and Charlie and Gerald and Lisa — all the usual suspects. Then suddenly, in the last two programmes, it just goes off like a bomb’."

Jeremy Clarkson also detailed the visible decline by stating, "You can see me becoming more and more ill as the days go on, because I just lose my sense of humour, lose my ability to stay calm. I get in a proper old panic."

The former 'Top Gear' host went on to admit that he didn't grasp the severity at the time. 

"I didn’t know at the time. I knew I wasn’t being me. I was trying to get the pub open for the August Bank Holiday weekend and, at the same time, doing the harvest on the farm. And it’s very well documented I ended up in hospital with a heart problem," Jeremy continued. 

In addition to this, the 65-year-old presenter confirmed that it was an "incredibly stressful" period for him, acknowledging the ill-advised timing of the pub launch amid harvest. 

"When you see how stressful it was trying to do those two things… there’s simply no sleep," he added, reflecting on the arduous schedule.

He concluded, "I was coming back knackered from a day trying to get the pub open, and having to get straight into the tractor to do grain carting through the night. You can’t make the harvest wait... God, it was knackering."