The star was contact and go for a number of days.
Birds of a Feather star Linda Robson has opened up on current helath struggles (Picture: Getty)
One of many stars of iconic TV present Birds of a Feather has revealed they got here very near dying earlier this yr following a routine operation. Linda Robson, 68, has she was contact and go for 10 days in intensive care as docs battled to save lots of her life. The mum of three had an operation on her pancreas after gallstones broken it and tumours have been discovered on it. Nonetheless it proved to be removed from easy.
“I used to be petrified in intensive care. I assumed I used to be going to die. I needed to have most of my pancreas eliminated as a result of there have been two tumours in a troublesome place. I needed to have a mind scan as properly,” the Free Ladies presenter confessed. Fortunately her household rallied round her as she recovered and she or he stated seeing her youngsters helped her via the ordeal. “They have been on the hospital on a regular basis. They’ve been wonderful,” she gushed.
The star was compelled to take a break from her presenting duties on ITV’s lengthy working daytime staple after docs discovered a small cyst on the gland.
Now totally recovered she is decided to get pleasure from herself. “I needed to take a again seat for a short time to get higher and now I’m. I’m positive now. I’m on the mend. I wish to profit from life. I like being out and about now that my huge worries are over. I really feel much more assured now,” she instructed The Solar.
This newest well being setback comes after Linda opened up in 2024 a few troublesome psychological breakdown which led to her Free Ladies co-star Stacey Solomon taking her to rehab. She took over a yr off the present again in 2019 to concentrate on her well being after struggling mentally and turning to alcohol.
She had beforehand instructed how her nervousness struggles started in 2008 when her son’s pal Ben Kinsella was stabbed and died on an evening out. From that day ahead, she felt utterly completely different when it got here to the security of her 4 kids and struggled with nervousness and OCD (obsessive compulsive dysfunction).
A decade later she suffered a psychological breakdown throughout a visit to Ibiza along with her fellow Free Ladies stars and ended up on suicide watch with Stacey serving to her via rehab.
Talking to Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary on This Morning she shared: “It began in Ibiza, we used to go to a bootcamp, me and the Free Ladies each summer season. Then one yr after I went I simply discovered it actually onerous to get via the day. I began ingesting, I would by no means drunk earlier than. Ingesting something to black out.”
Linda went on to say that whereas she was given treatment to assist her, she ended up being in a worse state, including: “My household have been on suicide watch. Actually, it was so unhealthy. You’ve got (Alison) recognized me for a very long time and I’ve at all times been alright.
“There was two years the place I weren’t on Free Ladies after which I went again to Free Ladies 4 years in the past and every thing’s been positive, I am off of all treatment, I have never drunk for 4 years.”
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