Siegfried & Roy star recalls tiger attack nightmare
Illusionist Roy Horn has spoken publicly for the first about the tiger attack that almost ended his life.
The Siegfried & Roy star was mauled by tiger pet Montecore when he tumbled during a magic show at Las Vegas's Mirage hotel and casino last October - and he has spent the past 11 months making a miraculous discovery.
On Wednesday night, in a television appearance in the US, the magician revealed his big cat friend was merely trying to take him to safety after he suffered a stroke due to high blood pressure onstage.
Horn, aged 59, told Arnold Schwarzenegger's journalist wife Maria Shriver: "It was a stroke. He's (Montecore) my baby. He saved my life."
The illusionist, who was joined by partner Siegfried Fischbacher for the NBC news special, revealed he's in so much pain he often cries himself to sleep, but he has no hard feelings towards the tiger, whose deep teeth incisions almost killed him instantly.
He added: "There's no bad feeling of any kind. They're (tigers) part of me, I'm part of them. That's how wonderful they are."
Horn refuses to release video footage of the night he was attacked - because he doesn't want to be in a position where he sees the incident again.
