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