LADY CASUALTY Jungle star hours from death’ i n hospital dash
LADY Colin Campbell has told how she was just “hours from death” with blood poisoning.
The former I’m a Celebrity star fell ill and became disorientated at her castle last weekend.
She was rushed to a private West London hospital and told she had developed sepsis, possibly due to tainted food.
The socialite, 67, said: “I’d have died if I hadn’t been given strong antibiotics. If I’d gone into septic shock I could have been dead in 48 to 72 hours. I could feel my organs starting to shut down. I was desperately ill.” Lady C began feeling queasy on the Wednesday after scallops for lunch. “I was very sick,” she said. “I went to the doctor, who asked if I’d been abroad and exposed to bacteria, which I hadn’t. I was given antibiotics, I think for suspected food pois poisoning, and went home feeling dreadful.”d Her condition w was worse by the Saturday and she did not even know what day it was. “A problem w with sepsis is that it causes confusion because it attacksa the brain,” she said.s “I was terribly weakw and I could tell that my bodybod was going throughth something very ominous. I vomited green sick in my waste paper bin.
“I spoke to a very eminent friend in the medical world and was told I needed hospital treatment. My sons took me into the Lister Hospital in Chelsea. I was put in bed and given a stronger antibiotic.”
Sepsis, also known as blood poisoning, can be triggered by infection or injury.
Dangerous
The body’s immune system goes into overdrive as it tries to fight back. This can reduce the blood supply to vital organs such as the brain, heart and kidneys.
Without fast treatment, multiple organ failure and death can follow.
Lady C said: “I’m now on the mend at home but I think it’s vital people realise how dangerous sepsis can be and how easily septic shock can kill. This was awful – far worse than anything I experienced in the I’m a Celebrity jungle.
“I’ve had some terrifying experiences. I even had a fake anthrax letter delivered to me once and I’m sure I’ve been lucky to have escaped with my life before now. But this was really dreadful. I don’t wish this on anyone.”
Lady C, who was raised as a boy called George due to a genital deformity, quit I’m a Celebrity last winter after 19 days following clashes with camp mates.
She claimed she was bullied by Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley and Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne and threatened to take them to court.
Last month she appeared in a one-off ITV documentary, Lady C and the Castle, about renovations at Goring Castle, West Sussex, which she bought in 2013.