In the months that followed Randy Travis ' 2013 stroke, his life hung in the balance.

The situation got so dire, in fact, that doctors were ready to halt their treatment efforts. But the singer's wife Mary never gave up.

During a new interview with FOX News Digital , the couple recount how at one point, about four months into his hospital stay, Travis' medical team told Mary that it was time to consider "pull[ing] the plug."

"They said, 'We need to pull the plug. He's got too many things going against him,'" Mary remembers in the emotional interview.

Travis was battling a staph infection and "three other hospital-borne bacterial viruses," she goes on to say. "The doctors were just saying, 'He doesn't have the strength to get through this.'"

Randy Travis Beat the Odds, With Hel

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