Former MTV VJ Matt Pinfield announced this week that he overcame the odds by surviving a stroke he suffered in January and is out of the ICU.

Matt Pinfield is alive and recovering after suffering a major stroke in January. "Guys, I'm alive," Pinfield, who was in a coma in the ICU, told The Hollywood Reporter. "I'm recovering and am going to come back swinging.

"Friends were thinking they were coming to see me for the last time. The doctors never expected me to speak or to walk again," said Pinfield