In 2020 he underwent emergency surgery on his heart for a mitral valve prolapse after being diagnosed with the condition at a routine medical check. He had attributed the symptoms to excessive alcohol intake, saying: "I just assumed, that's the booze... I thought this is what you feel like when you’re 47 and you treat your body like a skip." He then gave up drinking alcohol, saying: "The drinking crawled up so gradually that I was slow-killing myself... It was certainly an addiction at the end, a dependency... I was thinking of at any given time of the day."