She said that while eating breakfast with her husband, she began to worry about her speech and felt numbness in her fingers. “[It was] “It’s definitely the scariest moment of my life,” he said. Bieber said tests revealed she had a transient ischemic attack, also known as a mini-stroke. After being examined at UCLA, her doctors said she had a passable oval foramen (PFO), which is a small opening between the two upper chambers of the heart, the right and left atria, which is what led to its movement. blood clot from her heart to her brain. He was re-admitted to the hospital to undergo a procedure to close the hole, which he says was between 12 and 13 millimeters. “The biggest thing I feel is that I feel really relieved that we were able to understand everything, that we were able to close it,” she said. “That I’ll just be able to get out of this really scary situation and just live my life.”