Wiggle Greg Page tears up live on Sunrise watching the terrifying moment he suffered a heart attack

Original Yellow Wiggle Greg Page became emotional during a live interview on Thursday’s Sunrise as he recalled the terrifying moment he suffered a heart attack while on stage in January. 

The 48-year-old was being introduced by hosts Samantha Armytage and David ‘Kochie’ Koch when footage played from the moment he collapsed during a Wiggles concert and almost lost his life.

Greg, who was appearing on the show to talk about teaming up with Cricket Australia to introduce better access to defibrillators, admitted he got choked up seeing the shocking footage. 

‘I was just watching that footage back and got a little bit teary to be honest,’ Greg said. 

‘I don’t reflect on that moment very often and seeing Grace [a paramedic] there again and realising what happened. It happens everyday to so many people around Australia and these devices can make such a difference,’ he said. 

‘You never know when cardiac arrest might strike. People need to be prepared in every way possible.’ 

Defibrillators are a medical device used to send electric shocks to the heart to help return the heart beat back to normal. 

Greg suffered a heart attack at a Wiggles reunion concert in January. 

During an appearance on the Today Show in August, he said that while he doesn’t ‘remember much’ about the incident, he could distinctly remember taking his ‘last breaths’.

‘There’s only a couple of things I do remember and unfortunately one of the things I remember was lying on the floor looking at the ceiling and taking what could have been my last breaths,’ the former children’s entertainer said.

‘But at the time I felt I had just done a big show and I was out of breath and struggling to breathe.’ 

Towards the end of the group’s performance at the Castle Hill RSL in Sydney on January 17, Greg dramatically collapsed at the side of the stage. 

He said that in the lead up to the concert he was feeling ‘fit’ and ‘healthy’ and ‘never expected’ to suffer cardiac arrest.

‘That episode of my life is something I never expected to happen,’ he added.

‘I had a heart attack because of a blocked artery and they now know there are blockages in there. But I didn’t know that it was there.’ 

Greg went on to reveal that he has since been given a stent to help keep his arteries open.

The musician also appealed to Australians to learn essential first aid skills like CPR, which can help save others in the same situation he was in.