 Because of this event George had a brain stroke that left him with paralysis in his right side of the body and affected his movement and speech which forced him to retire.Sidhom's last work was in a television advertisement for Pepsi in Ramadan of 2014, where he appeared alongside Samir Ghanem and Sherine where they dressed in similar clothes to what they wore in their actual play back in 1978.Sidhom died on 27 March 2020 inside a private hospital in Heliopolis, Egypt after a long struggle.