Strictly star rushed to hospital as doctors warn she could be paralysed
Former Strictly Come Dancing star Susannah Constantine has recalled being rushed to hospital with a life threatening illness.
The 61-year-old TV star - who shot to fame in 2001 when she starred in popular self help show What Not To Wear alongside Trinny Woodall, 60 - was told by doctors she was at risk of being left paralysed or of suffering a brain haemorrhage. Medics were alarmed when the star suffered a number of symptoms including pins and needles, tinnitus, and a swollen left eye.
Doctors insisted that surgery was necessary otherwise she was at risk of suffering a severe medical condition. However, there was also a risk that surgery could spark a another health problem too - leaving the star fearing over having a choice to do nothing and suffer or go under the knife with the risk of major health consequences.
Susannah - who shared details of needing emergency surgery last year - has opened up about her ordeal in a new interview. And while her symptoms sound innocuous, and the consequences severe, she does not explicitly name the health problem she was suffering from.
The TV star had previously shared photos of herself in hospital (@susannahconstantine/Instagram)
Last summer, the TV star shared a photo from a hospital bed (@susannahconstantine/Instagram)She told OK! magazine: "They said 'It's Hobson's Choice, if you don't have the operation, you've got a one in three chance of having a brain haemorrhage, being paralysed or having a stroke. If you do have surgery, you've got a one in 10 chance of these same things happening during the operation'."
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Last year, Susannah revealed she had been rushed to hospital and shared a snap of herself getting treatment via social media. She shared a photo of her arm with an IV needle injected into it while she was laying in a hospital bed.
She wrote online at the time: “Withered arm turned out to be a symptom of something a bit more serious. All sorted now thanks to our ailing but still magnificent NHS where we are lucky enough to have some of the most gifted doctors (and in this case neurosurgeons) in the world. @brainandspine. Forever grateful."
The presenter - who was a contestant on Strictly back in 2018 where she was paired with professional dancer Anton Du Beke and they were knocked out in the first week of the contest - has previously opened up to the Mirror about other past health problems. She explained last year that she had been left heartbroken by realising she was losing her hearing.
She said last June: “[The] penny didn't drop until spring… I live in the countryside, birdsong is something I’ve always loved and found very comforting. I was sitting in a big barrel of water doing my cold water immersion, listening to the birds, thinking, ‘There’s a mistle thrush and there’s a… why aren’t I hearing it?’ It was a cacophony of noise without the clarity and differentiation. That’s when I realised. Well, that coupled with my children [Joe, 23, Esme, 21 and Cece, 18] calling me deaf and getting really frustrated with me."
She added: “Ambient noise is awful. I wasn’t able to hear the person sitting next to me. I’d become an amateur lip reader, but if I couldn’t see someone’s face, I had no idea what they were saying. It was embarrassing.” Susannah went on to hit out at the “huge stigma” surrounding hearing aids, and said she feared the device left her feeling “so old.” She added that she has found wearing hearing aids as “transformative”.
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