James McAvoy says a lung biopsy went wrong and he ‘nearly died’

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"I had a lung puncture because they needed to test to they saw a shadow in my lung. So they wanted to biopsy it to see if it was cancer, which it wasn't, which was great. But that was botched and I nearly died."

Actor James McAvoy says he suffered a punctured lung after a biopsy was carried out to test a ‘shadow’ doctors saw on his lung. He says the test showed it was not cancer, but that the procedure was “botched”, and that two days later his lungs “collapsed” at home, leading to a weeks-long hospital stay and discussion of major surgery to clear infection.