Renowned author Salman Rushdie has revealed more details about the knife attack that left him blind in 8️⃣ one eye, telling CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday that he had a "premonition" of the event just days beforehand.
Giving his 8️⃣ first television interview since he was stabbed several times on stage shortly before he was due to deliver a lecture 8️⃣ at the Chautauqua Institution in New York in August 2024, the Indian-born novelist told Anderson Cooper he had "dreams of 8️⃣ being attacked in an amphitheater" before going there.
"I said to my wife, Eliza, 'I don't want to go' because of 8️⃣ the dream. And then I thought, 'Don't be silly, it's a dream,'" he recalled.