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Strictly Come Dancing 2024 star's brush with death - 'I didn’t have long to live'

TV medic Dr Punam Krishan, who is set to grace Strictly Come Dancing's ballroom, previously experienced a health scare after child birth which saw her with "not long left to live"

But ahead of her exciting debut on the Strictly dancefloor, Morning Live's Dr Punam Krishan, a practising doctor who regularly shares intel on the medical world, has faced her own scary times away from the spotlight. It was after the birth of her son Aarish that Dr Krishan experienced the "complete out of the blue crisis point in life" when she suffered a postpartum haemorrhage (Image: Instagram/drpunamkrishan)She continued: "I started exercising and eating food to nourish myself inside and out. TV medic Dr Punam Krishan is swapping the doctor's surgery for the dancefloor as she joins Strictly Come Dancing's 2024 series (Image: PA)She added: "This is so out of my comfort zone, but I'm up for the journey and will give it my absolute all."

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