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Amy Dowden 'unresponsive' and 'nearly died' with family given devastating news amid cancer battle


Strictly Come Dancing star Amy Dowden has revealed her family were told she was 'hours away' from organ failure after the star developed sepsis during her cancer battle

The professional dancer was rushed to A&E, with the star remembered feeling “scared” she would pick up an infection on the way to the hospital as she was aware she had “no white blood cells” at the time. But sadly, things took a turn for the worse the next morning with Amy’s husband and parents told by the hospital: “The doctor wants to speak to you.” “My husband said that he’d said my heart rate and my blood pressure was so low that I probably wouldn’t function more than sixteen hours, my organs would go into failure.

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