When Jason Mortensen woke from surgery and his wife filmed it, hearts all over the world melted to watch the footage.

Mortensen spots his wife and is overcome with her beauty, forgetting not only does he know her, he's been married to her for six years.

But is this viral video a giant hoax?

Now said to be recovered, Mr Mortensen, Vice President of sales at Oltuse Pharmaceuticals in Orem, Utah, is sticking to his every word.

The former missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints said: 'I had a hernia repair to fix residual tears from a previous surgery.

'I wish I could remember this but I was definitely out of it.

'This was my fifth surgery within our six years of marriage and she's been by my side through all of it.

'In a previous surgery I suffered a severe complication and we didn't know if I'd ever function the same again.

'She is the love of my life.'

The couple live in Utah, where Mr Mortensen swapped medical school for business in 2010 after starting his own marketing company, Kangaroo Clips.

However experts in surgery related amnesia have doubted the authenticity of this video and a headshot of Mortensen on a Hollywood auditions site, touting his acting credentials has been making the rounds.

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