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Andrea McLean rushed to hospital with life-threatening illness after collapsing at home

Former Loose Women star Andrea McLean has revealed she spent time in hospital after collapsing at home in December.

The presenter, who had been notably absent from social media, shared her harrowing health battle in a Substack column, detailing how she suffered from severe pneumonia, acute kidney injury and sepsis. “After seven days of sweating and shivering, with a raging temperature and chills, and pain in my chest and back, my wee turned brown,” she wrote. The TV star described the experience as something out of a horror movie, feeling trapped in pain, unable to move, while a confused elderly patient tried to attack her.

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