Randy Travis' wife is shedding light on his scary brush with death.

When the country crooner, 66, suffered a stroke in 2013, his spouse, Mary, stepped in to ensure he made it through, she told Fox News in a recent interview. In the article published Aug. 26, Mary Travis revealed that doctors had advised her to "pull the plug," but that she had trusted he would make a recovery. The pair have been married since 2015.

"There was never a doubt in Randy's mind that he could make it through it," she said. "It was that magical moment that I went to his bedside when they said, 'We need to pull the plug. He's got too many things going against him at that point.' He had gotten a staph infection and three other hospital-born bacterial viruses like Serratia, Pseudomonas, one thing after another, and the doctors were just saying, 'He just doesn't have the strength to get through this.'"

"That's when I went to him. That was the moment that I knew that Randy Travis was gonna make it because he squeezed my hand and a tear went down his face," she continued. "And I said, 'He's still fighting.'"

"I knew at that point in time, because he had every odd in the world against him," Mary told the outlet. "He wasn't giving up. And I was so encouraged by that, to be honest. He was my inspiration."

Randy Travis, known for tunes like "Forever and Ever, Amen" and "If I Didn't Have You," has been using artificial intelligence in recent years to continue to make music, Mary also told Fox in the interview.

"Randy and I are both on stage. I give a little bit of background as far as the music, the musicians, Randy, the stroke, a song, the AI, of course," she told the outlet, later explaining that a machine learning model can draw from Travis' original vocals to polish a previously unfinished song.

"Then we show videos of Randy's historical past, as far as some of his joke-telling, which allows people to see the humor that Randy has. And all the way back to his childhood and working with horses in some of the Westerns that he was in, the funny things along the way," she said of Travis' current live performances. "So it gives you a whole, like I said, biographical sketch of Randy Travis. And then James Dupre is singing all of the songs, and it's just kind of a magical night, really."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Randy Travis' wife reveals she refused doctors' advice to end life support

Reporting by Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY / USA TODAY

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