(via CBS)
A TV reporter who lapsed into gibberish during a live shot outside the Grammys said she was terrified when it happened and knew something was wrong as soon as she opened her mouth.
KCBS-TV reporter Serene Branson’s incoherence Sunday fueled Internet speculation that she suffered an on-air stroke. But doctors at the University of California, Los Angeles where she went to get a brain scan and blood work done ruled it out. Doctors said she suffered a type of migraine that can mimic symptoms of a stroke.
Branson told the station in an interview Thursday that she ‘started to get a really bad headache’ but assumed she was just tired.
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‘At around 10 o’clock that night I was sitting in the live truck with my field producer and the photographer and I was starting to look at some of my notes,’ she said. ‘I started to think, the words on the page are blurry and I could notice that my thoughts were not forming the way they normally do.’
‘As soon as I opened my mouth I knew something was wrong,’ Branson said. ‘I was having trouble remembering the word for Grammy,’ she said. ‘I knew what I wanted to say but I didn’t have the words to say it.’
The station quickly cut away, and she was examined by paramedics and recovered at home.
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