“I was driving home and I felt my heart skip a beat. Well, your heart skipping a beat doesn’t sound like it’s anything serious, so I didn’t pay much attention to it. And then it went blump-bla-bla-blump,” Manilow told CBSNews in October 2011. “And it got crazier and crazier, I felt like there was a fish flopping around in my chest.”

“I called my doctor and said ‘What is this?’ He said ‘Come on in,’ and he knew exactly what it was. It was atrial fibrillation,” Manilow says, he added. “I think it did scare me half to death because, you know, ‘Really my heart, there’s something wrong with my heart?’ But he said not to worry about (it), ‘It’s really good that you called us because that’s what you’ve got to do.’”