Kerry Katona was rushed to hospital in an ambulance over fears she was having a stroke after watching her daughter’s play in London
Kerry was rushed to hospital(Image: kerrykatona7/Instagram)
A enjoyable household day trip was horror for Kerry Katona when she was rushed to hospital in an ambulance over fears she was having a stroke.
Kerry, who was in London watching her eldest daughter Molly in a new play, began to really feel unwell halfway by way of the efficiency. Afterwards, she realised she couldn’t smile correctly, which is a serious tell-tale signal of a stroke.
Kerry, who was along with her daughter Heidi and partner Paolo Margaglione on the time, tells us, “As the day went on, I didn’t feel well. I went to the toilet and noticed my face wasn’t right. And Heidi was like, ‘Mum, what’s wrong with your face?’ I started panicking. I discreetly left, went to my hotel and asked to see a doctor. I told the staff, ‘Something’s not right.’”
To Kerry’s dismay, a health care provider wasn’t accessible for 4 hours, so the mum-of-five took a taxi to St Thomas’ Hospital. “I got there, and they said, ‘We’re treating this as a stroke,’ so they blue-lit me in an ambulance from St Thomas’ to King’s College Hospital,” explains Kerry. “They were shining lights in my eyes while my face and speech were getting worse.
An hour ago I was watching our Molly in a play and now I’m being treated for a stroke. What the actual f**k? It just shows how quickly things can change.” The state of affairs was so dire that Kerry, 45, messaged all of her kids – Molly, 24, Lilly, 23, Heidi, 19, Max, 18, and 12-year-old Dylan-Jorge – fearing that she would possibly by no means get to converse to them once more.
“It really, really scared me,” she says. “I texted all my children and told them I loved them. I’ve never been so scared in my life.” At hospital, Kerry was subjected to varied exams, together with CT scans, earlier than lastly being advised what was responsible for the modifications in her speech and face.
“It was a suspected stroke, but luckily that was ruled out after my scans. Instead the CT scans showed there’s a part of my brain that’s broken and isn’t able to send signals to my face due to stress,” she says. “I’ve spoken to Anna Williamson from Celebs Go Dating about it since, and apparently it can also happen when you’re feeling content. It’s like delayed stress hitting you suddenly because you feel at peace. Every now and then, I’ll get a shooting pain in my head. And I’m noticing my speech – even though I think I’m saying something properly in my head, it doesn’t sound right out loud.”
While Kerry can’t pinpoint precisely what stress might need triggered the situation, she admits that she’s feeling run down. “I don’t know if it’s because I’m run down from balancing family life, but I don’t have a social life. I don’t go out drinking. I don’t socialise with anybody outside of my circle, which is Paolo and my kids,” she says.
Knowing what she is aware of now, Kerry has been wanting again at outdated residence movies, in an effort to see if she can determine when issues began to change. Watching them, she says she can see her speech altering over time and getting worse.
“The doctors said it will come back. But I want to have speech therapy and get the right exercises for my face,” she says. “I’m getting a bit panicky with it.”
For Kerry, the terrifying incident should have revived reminiscences of her late husband George Kay, who was hospitalised in 2015 whereas additionally struggling indicators of a stroke. The former rugby participant was experiencing facial paralysis and hassle talking, similar to Kerry. At the time, Kerry begged her followers to pray for him. It later transpired that George, who tragically died of a drug overdose in 2019, was affected by Bell’s Palsy, a situation that causes sudden non permanent weak point or paralysis of the muscular tissues on one aspect of the face.
In a bid to take her thoughts off her well being woes, Kerry headed off to Spain to rejoice Dylan-Jorge’s twelfth birthday and get some much-needed solar with Paolo and their blended household. But she admits the vacation hasn’t come at a great time.
“I genuinely feel like s**t,” she says. “Because we had to fly out to Marbella, I haven’t had any follow-up checks. But I’ll do it as soon as I get back to try to get my speech and face sorted.”
For now, Kerry’s face continues to be tight on one aspect, however she’s hopeful that with workout routines and speech remedy, every little thing can return again to regular. The newest setback follows a string of health-related issues Kerry’s confronted over the previous 12 months.
In 2025, she suffered two heartbreaking miscarriages after falling pregnant by Paolo. And in January this 12 months, she was hospitalised with extreme abdomen ache and recognized with colitis – a power sickness that causes irritation of the rectum and colon. She had to keep off her beloved spicy meals so as to get nicely.
But this newest hurdle could possibly be Kerry’s hardest well being battle but.
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