'I've been cleared to have sex!' Porn legend Ron Jeremy gets back to business after near-fatal aneurysm

• Prolific actor, 59, suffered an aneurysm near his heart in January
• Porn legend released from LA hospital after surviving several emergency operations and has now been cleared to have sex

By Daily Mail Reporter

Published: 12:54 EDT, 22 February 2013 | Updated: 12:55 EDT, 22 February 2013

Porn legend Ron Jeremy, 59, has been released from hospital after a near-death experience and he's already planning on getting back to business.

Doctors have told the prolific star that he's cleared to have sex after he left Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles around week ago.

Having survived the aneurysm near his heart that nearly killed him, he told TMZ: 'They said to me at the clinic, that if you can walk up two flights of stairs you're able to have sex... so I walked up two flights of stairs and 3 ADDITIONAL stairs.'

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Back to business: Showing off the staples from his open heart surgery, porn legend Ron Jeremy says that doctors have now have cleared him to start having sex again

Jeremy is now recovering in a Hollywood hotel and the icon's return to health will delight fans of his larger than life character and smutty films around the world.

He says he hope to return to work - or least to light TV cameos and personal appearances - by the end of March.

On Tuesday, the porn king told the New York Daily News: 'I came very close to death. I guess I have a very, very strong will to live.'

Jeremy told the Daily News that he's lost 45 pounds since his hospitalization and is now on a strict new diet of protein, vegetables and no salt.

He was admitted to hospital after eating honey glazed donuts and admits he had 'dropped the ball' looking after his health.

It's thought that a bad diet, hypertension and sleep apnea all contributed to his condition.

'Eating healthy food is depressing, but it’s keeping me alive,' the actor said.

Clowning around: Porn star Ron Jeremy is recovering from open heart surgery in a Hollywood hotel

The famous fornicator has clearly kept his sense of humor following his scare: 'My dad is 94 and still going strong. He got mad at me for this. He jokes that he and my mom gave me the perfect body, and I screwed it up,' Jeremy said.

Jeremy survived a number of emergency operations after the aneurysm near his heart. He drove himself to hospital on January 29, hours before he was meant to attend his sister's wedding.

At one point he was told that that he had a 20 percent chance of dying from surgery. As he didn't have a rabbi he called pastor Craig Gross.

Gross founded XXXchurch.com, a non-profit Christian site that aims to help people with porn addiction, and Jeremy says the two have become friends.

Now he's on the road to recovery Jeremy is back to his old ways.

On Wednesday, he tweeted: 'Thank you everyone for all the get well wishes! Hope you are all having a Happy Hump Day :)'

On February 13, the prolific actor tweeted a picture giving a thumbs up to camera - with a smiling, comely nurse leaning over his bedside.

Jeremy accompanied the photo with the words: 'Thank you ALL for the concern & well wishes, I'm doing very well thanks to modern technology! - Ron.'

Bouncing back: Porn star Ron Jeremy gives a thumbs up from his hospital bed at Cedars-Sinai in LA earlier in February

Jeremy had a heavy feeling in his chest after eating a honey-glazed donut and drove himself to the hospital on January 29.

Jeremy's father, Arnold Hyatt, told reporters early in the ordeal: 'Right now everything is in a holding pattern. He's heavily sedated and intubated.

'The doctors are waiting to see what develops. They anticipate it will be two or three days before they take him off the respirator.'

The pop culture icon has undergone two surgeries as doctors battle to stabilize him.

'It was an eight-hour procedure to begin with, and then there was some bleeding around his valves, so they had to go in for a second time to stop the bleeding,' Mr Hyatt, 94, told the New York Daily News.

Ron Jeremy was eating donuts at a rehearsal for a show based on legendary porn film Deep Throat the day before he was admitted to hospital.

'He has a lot of friends and his brothers close by,' Hyatt added. 'There are a lot of people praying.'

When he was once asked about an unprecedented career in adult entertainment that has seen him ranked No. 1 on the AVN Magazine's list of the 100 Top Porn Stars of all time, Jeremy remarked that it was his family that put him on the right path.

Treats: Jeremy ate honey glazed donuts (left) while rehearsing for friend Dave Bertolino's (right) play about landmark 1970s film Deep Throat

'I attributed that to great parents,' Jeremy said, bragging that he'd also remained STD-free. 'It's good genes and being very careful.'

The 59-year-old cult figure was due to have a cameo in his friend, Dave Bertolino's play about the landmark 1970s adult movie when the high-calorie delivery arrived.

'I was trying to steer him towards the vegetable platter. But you know what they say about Ronnie, he never turns down food or work,' said Bertonlino.

Jeremy has appeared in more than 2,000 adult films throughout his life and left behind a career in teaching to become a porn star.

Ron Jeremy and adult film actresses Kirsten Price and Lily LaBeau present an award during the 29th annual Adult Video News Awards Show at The Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino January 21, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada

His level of fame has transcended his chosen profession and he has appeared in various music videos, non-adult films and television shows and reality serials throughout his career which began in the 1970s.

In addition to his adult film career, Jeremy appeared on 'The Surreal Life,' 'Tosh.O' and 'Chappelle’s Show.'

He later became a consultant of feature films that featured adult films in their premise, such as 'Boogie Nights.' He was also a guest on Anthony Bourdain's 'No Reservations' reality television series for season 5 and 6.

His sense of humor and everyman appearance has been seen as key to his success over the years.

Jeremy is nicknamed 'The hedgehog' and has been a household name for at least thirty years for his work in the adult film industry.

Popular: Adult film stars Echo Valley and Ron Jeremy participate in the 2005 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo at the Sands Convention Center at the Venetian Hotel January 7, 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada

Jeremy has won countless awards throughout his career, and he was ranked by AVN at number one in their 'The 50 Top Porn Stars of All Time' list.

The actor's real name is Ron Jeremy Hyatt and he originally hails from Queens, New York.

His father Arnold was a physicist and his mother worked as a book editor and served in the O.S.S. - the direct predecessor of the CIA during World War Two.

As a young man, Jeremy attended Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, where former CIA director George Tenet was a classmate.

Before he began his career in porn, he earned a bachelor's degree in education and theater and a master's degree in special education from Queens College in New York.

Not fully-retired from pornographic films, he is still cast in many non-sex roles and is an advocate for pornographic films as a whole.

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