Wednesday, 7 October 2009

Elizabeth Taylor tweets about heart surgery

Actress asks followers to pray for her

Kelly Osbourne and Sandra Bernhard replied to Elizabeth Taylor's tweet

Elizabeth Taylor is to have an operation on her ticker.

The actress announced the news on micro-blogging site Twitter.

‘Dear Friends, I would like to let you know before it gets in the papers that I am going into the hospital to have a procedure on my heart,' she wrote.

‘It's very new and involves repairing my leaky valve using a clip device, without open heart surgery, so that my heart will function better.'

Elizabeth, 77, has had health problems before - she'd undergone two hip replacements and had a benign tumour removed from her brain.

‘Any prayers you happen to have lying around I would dearly appreciate,' she added.

‘I'll let you know when it's all over. Love you, Elizabeth.'

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