Legendary talk show host Larry King is reportedly in “good spirits” as he just returned home from the hospital after having heart surgery last Thursday.

Contrary to prior reports, the 85 year-old did not actually suffer a heart attack last week prior to the surgery. Instead, representatives from Ora TV said that he had been having breathing difficulties for months and had been scheduled to go in for an angiogram when doctors decided that he needed surgery.

“Larry is in good spirits and thanks everyone for their concern,” ORA TV added in a statement.

King suffered his first and only heart attack in 1987, and he has been an advocate for heart health and check-ups ever since.

“In early 1987 I was smoking three packs of Nat Sherman cigarettes a day, eating fried this-and-that, enjoying lamb chops with lots of fat because that always improves the taste, ordering banana cream or lemon meringue pie for dessert — and feeling absolutely fine,” King wrote in his 2004 book “Taking on Heart Disease.” After this heart attack, however, King’s life changed forever.

“I had never spent much time thinking about my heart. But when I did, it was always the other heart — the romantic one,” King recalled. “So let’s get to it right here in the first paragraph: Not paying attention to the heart (the one inside your chest) and the warnings it will send is a theme in the pages to come.”

We’re glad to see that King seems to be doing well after his surgery, and we hope that he continues to have a good recovery in the days and weeks to come.