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”He said that if anything were to happen to my heart, to never let anyone know,” Robby recalled. “It’s career suicide.”
On the set of Die Laughing, the actor fell very ill, and soon understood that he had to seek medical attention. Robby was just about to make the leap from teen idol to established star in Hollywood – so he didn’t want to tell anyone about what the doctors had found on his heart years before.
But after almost collapsing on location during the filming of Die Laughing, he was forced to act. All this led to him undergoing open-heart surgery in 1984. The surgeons repaired a valve defect and according to reports, the procedure went ‘extremely well.’