I'm A Celebrity star was hours away from death but 'ignored doctor's orders'

Homes Under The Hammer prima Martin Roberts underwent an exigency cognition successful 2022 aft suffering from thorax pains

A erstwhile I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! prima shared however they were erstwhile hours distant from decease but but ignored their doctor's orders.

Homes Under The Hammer prima Martin Roberts took portion successful I'm A Celeb successful 2016 and came successful sixth place. He is besides known for Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, Wish You Were Here...?, Ready Steady Cook, Celebrity MasterChef and more. He had a life-saving bosom cognition successful 2022 aft helium started suffering from thorax pains.

The prima had a 'massive magnitude of fluid each astir his heart', stopping it from working, with the prima sharing updates with fans astatine the time. Doctors warned him that helium would person had lone a fewer hours to unrecorded if helium didn't person an exigency operation. Although helium was told to dilatory down, helium purchased a pub that needed renovating.

"It was a spot of an eye-opener to beryllium honest, being 3 hours from death, that’s ever going to ruin your day," helium revealed. "I was told to dilatory down and truly instrumentality things easy… truthful I bought a pub which needed implicit renovating and which I’ve got effort and run, having nary acquisition of moving a pub, edifice oregon a hotel."

"It abruptly makes you realise however fragile we each are successful tons of ways," helium said to Metro.co.uk. He went connected to admit that helium is 'definitely not pursuing each the advice' to marque himself 'last longer' but would alternatively 'have a fewer years arsenic a lion than galore arsenic a lamb'.

Back successful April 2022, Martin was rushed to hospital with thorax pains, wherever it was discovered that fluid was "strangling" his heart, and that helium had "hours to live". During an interrogation with OK! magazine, Martin recalled the terrifying infinitesimal doctors plunged an "eight-inch needle" into his chest, sharing: "It's the nearest happening to not being present that has ever happened to me."

He added: "In my case, it turns to thing called a cardiac tamponade, which is wherever it fills rapidly and starts strangling the heart. And that's... that's the killer. It tin effect successful death. I watched arsenic they drew retired syringe aft syringe aft syringe of this liquid. I was awake for this, but I was a spot woozy. There was a conduit that went successful done my thorax cavity, down into the sack astir my heart."

Thankfully, Martin was discharged a week later, but has since had to acquisition regular check-ups aft an MRI scan picked up connected "residual problems".

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