A news anchor was left struggling to speak after suffering a stroke while reading off her teleprompter during a Saturday morning broadcast.

Julie Chin, a presenter for the NBC affiliate KJRH, was reporting on a story about the canceled Artemis-I launch when she encountered difficulties communicating.

Despite her best efforts, Chin continued stuttering and stumbling over her words while trying to finish her narrative, prompting the producers to cut the live broadcast short.

“I’m sorry, something is going on with me this morning and I apologize to everybody,” Chin apologized as she went off-script.

Before handing the limelight over to the weather team, she added: “Let’s just go ahead and send it on to meteorologist Annie Brown.”

After Brown took over, she reassured Chin that everything was alright and that “we all have those days.”

As it happens, however, it wasn’t just one of “those days” for the veteran news anchor.

After her colleagues called 911, the broadcaster was rushed to the hospital where she was informed that she had suffered “the beginnings of a stroke, but not a full stroke.”

“I’m glad to share that my tests have all come back great. At this point, doctors think I had the beginnings of a stroke, but not a full stroke,” Chin explained on Facebook on Sunday evening.

“There are still lots of questions, and lots to follow up on, but the bottom line is I should be just fine.”

While the news anchor reassured her followers that she would be fine, it appears she got very close to suffering a full stroke after her condition deteriorated rapidly while on air.

“The episode seemed to have come out of nowhere. I felt great before our show. However, over the course of several minutes during our newscast things started to happen. First, I lost partial vision in one eye. A little bit later my hand and arm went numb,” Chin said.

“Then, I knew I was in big trouble when my mouth would not speak the words that were right in front of me on the teleprompter. If you were watching Saturday morning, you know how desperately I tried to steer the show forward, but the words just wouldn’t come.”

The TV presenter also took the opportunity to thank her colleagues for immediately calling 911 and to all of her fans for positive messages, calls, emails, and prayers.

Our thoughts are with Julie as her recovery continues.