Meghan Markle’s estranged dad, Thomas Markle, underwent a three-hour surgery to have his left leg amputated below the knee after a blood clot cut off circulation.

His son, Thomas Markle Jr., confirmed the news to the Daily Mail on Thursday, saying, “My dad is being very brave. His foot turned blue and then black. It happened very quickly.”

He then detailed taking him to a local hospital in the Philippines, where the patriarch lives, “and they did some scans and an ultrasound and said the leg had to be amputated.”

After he was rushed via ambulance to a bigger hospital in Cebu, doctors immediately took him in for surgery, where they operated for three hours and removed the limb.

Thomas Jr. noted that there “was no option” but to amputate as it was now “a case of life or death.”

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