Strictly star Montell Douglas rushed to hospital after being in so much pain she ‘had to call ambulance’

STRICTLY Come Dancing prima Montell Douglas revealed she suffers from a chronic wellness information and had to telephone an ambulance due to the fact that she was successful "so overmuch pain".

The Gladiators prima had specified atrocious cramps she landed successful hospital.

She said: "That hospitalisation for maine was a benignant of wake-up call.

"My assemblage conscionable started convulsing, and I was astir passing out, due to the fact that the symptom was truthful intense.

"I was overheating due to the fact that of the hormones - my assemblage couldn’t power its temperature, and that successful crook made maine dehydrated. The symptom was successful waves, coming successful similar contractions."

Montell was prescribed beardown painkillers to assistance negociate the symptoms.

They request to beryllium taken earlier the excruciating play pains, known arsenic dysmenorrhoea, footwear in, which tin beryllium hard to predict.

She said: "I'm going to beryllium truly honorable astir it arsenic I deliberation it's thing we truly request to speech astir much the agonising pain… not galore radical and not each women volition acquisition the aforesaid thing.

"It's truthful disruptive and it's precise emotionally draining, not to notation physically draining."

Montell joined the BBC reboot of Gladiators earlier this twelvemonth arsenic she took connected the alter ego of Fire to amusement disconnected her power and strength.

She shared her excitement astir her Strictly signing, telling fans: "Strictly ARE YOU READY, Fire is present to airy up the Ballroom.

"Wow I americium truthful honoured to person been asked to bash the show. It is specified an astonishing happening to beryllium a portion of and I can’t hold to get started.

"Hopefully a fewer of my Gladiator moves volition travel successful useful with the Tango oregon Paso Doble!”

The 37-year-old antecedently competed successful the Olympic Games, making sporting history to go the archetypal pistillate UK jock to vie astatine some the summer and winter Olympics.

She is simply a former Team GB sprinter and Olympic bobsledder, and held the British woman's grounds for the fastest 100m sprint astatine 11.05 seconds, smashing the erstwhile grounds which was unbeaten for 27 years.

In 2010, Montell won Commonwealth Gold successful the 4 x 100m relay in Delhi arsenic good arsenic holding a European Under-23 Silver Medal successful 100m.