Lady Colin Campbell reveals on Loose Women that she nearly DIED from sepsis
The I'm a Celeb star and socialite was rushed to hospital after her organs began to shut down
LADY Colin Campbell revealed on Monday's Loose Women that she was close to death after contracting blood-poisoning last week.
The I'm a Celeb star and socialite joined Ruth Langsford, Nadia Sawalha, Coleen Nolan and Gloria Hunniford on the chat show, and explained she nearly didn't make it for her appearance after being struck down with the illness.
The 67-year-old explained that ordeal began after she had gone for lunch last Wednesday and ate some scallops. By Thursday she was beginning to feel unwell and went to the doctors, who believed she had food poisoning.
Lady C told the panel: "I then began to get confused on Saturday morning and my bladder had completely shut down. I was told by a doctor in my family that I needed to get to a hospital. He said I had the classical symptoms of sepsis.
"The funny thing is that I was already more aware of sepsis than most people because my close friend had just died from it."
Lady C continued: "My doctors are still not sure but they believe I had an infected scallop and got food poisoning, and then got into my organs and everything started to shut down.
"The symptoms vary but confusion and organ failure are two very big signs. I could feel that someone terrible was going on. My body was literally shutting down."
Lady C revealed that she feared for her sons while she was ill because they would be left peniless because her affairs are in a state.
As the interview began, Ruth commented that Lady C was looking better than she had anticipated following her ordeal.
Lady C quipped in response: "It's the make-up.
"I am much better today, today is the first day that I’m up. I have been stuck in bed all week but I am doing better."
Lady C, who was raised as a boy called George due to a genital deformity, quit I’m A Celebrity last winter after 19 days following clashes with camp mates.
She recently appeared in a one-off ITV documentary called Lady C And The Castle, which followed her renovations of Goring Castle, Sussex, which she bought in 2013.
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