LOOSE Women legend Andrea McLean has revealed she was just hours from death after battling a life-threatening illness.
The 55-year-old TV star made it to hospital in just enough time to overcome a bout of pneumonia and sepsis.
She told the Mirror: “I didn’t realise how severe my illness was at the time. But the doctors had told my husband, Nick, that had I not got to hospital when I did, had we waited another 24 hours to call for help, I may not be here now.”
Andrea collapsed to the floor in her bathroom prompting a desperate call to paramedics who had to stabilise her dangerously low blood pressure.
She continued: “Our bedroom is in the loft and they couldn’t get the stretcher around the tight bend, but eventually I managed to slide down the stairs, and was rushed to hospital. What happened over the next few weeks changed my life forever.”
