Queen’s Brian May 'Stabilized’ After Stroke and Playing Instruments Again, Wife Says: ‘Bit of a Challenge’

Brian May’s wife is sharing a health update on the Queen guitarist after he suffered a stroke a few months ago.

On Dec. 3, while speaking at the TRIC Christmas Lunch in London, Anita Dobson discussed her husband’s recovery from the health emergency. In September, the 77-year-old musician revealed he suffered a "minor stroke" and temporarily lost movement in his left arm.

“He’s much better now, he’s stabilized now, which is brilliant,” said the British actress, according to the Mirror. “I just hope we don’t have any more reoccurrences.”

Dobson, 75, said that May is now able to use his left arm but it “was a bit of a challenge.”

“He’s good to go now,” she boasted. “He’s playing the piano quite a lot in the house. He likes a lot of Beethoven. I love it — the piano in the house is really, just very relaxing.”

The EastEnders star explained that May didn’t try to play any instruments after the stroke until he had recovered “quite a bit.”

“And then he very slowly started to pick up an acoustic guitar and gradually just exercise the muscles. And it very quickly came back,” she said. “He’s just retraining the messages from your brain to that arm, that it’s actually OK to do what it used to do. It was scary. And also being a genius, for someone like that. His brain’s overloaded, that’s what it is. He’s too clever for his own good.”

Related: Queen's Brian May Reveals He Suffered 'Minor Stroke' and Had 'No Control' over His Left Arm: 'Little Scary'

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On Sept. 4, May first detailed the impact of his stroke in a video on Instagram, calling the stroke a “little health hiccup.”

“All of a sudden, out of the blue, I didn’t have any control over this arm. So was a little scary," the musician recalled.

"I have to say I had the most fantastic care and attention from Frimley Hospital where I went, blue lights flashing… the lot. Very exciting!" he jokingly added, referencing his ambulance ride to the hospital in Surrey, England where he'd been treated.

May insisted he "didn't want to say anything at the time" because he doesn't "want sympathy."

"Please don't do that 'cause it’ll clutter up my inbox and I hate that," "The Show Must Go On" hitmaker added, telling fans that the "good news" is that he's "OK."

May has suffered several health scares in the past, including recovering from a heart attack in May 2020, which came after he tore his gluteus maximus muscles while gardening. He also had "a little bit of eye surgery" in 2021, telling Good Morning Britain that he'd nearly died of "shocking" complications from the heart attack medication he'd been on.

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