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Street star Amanda on electric shock near-death experience
Hair prep before Shirley’s dance competition The ex-coronation Street star said she was paralysed by a surge from a fuse box. Amanda, 83, said the force was so strong it pinned her against the wall. “I thought my time had come,” Amanda was pinned by current said Amanda, who played Alma Sedgewick in the soap.
“I could not break the circuit. It felt like two or three days but I suspect it was only six seconds.”
Amanda, who is starring in ITV’S Hard To Please OAPS, said: “I was in my flat in London and the electrics tripped. I went to put it on, I was touching a lamp behind it. I was pinned by both arms to the wall by the electricity going through me.
“I could not extract my hands from the fuse box or the lamp. I was terrified. I just yelled for my neighbour and they came in.
“I got incredibly good-looking paramedics. They took me to hospital. My hair stood slightly on end. I lit up the West End.
“I was lucky. My arms were above my heart where the current went through.
“If they were lower it could have really harmed me.
“I thought what a stupid way to go, with fingers in sockets.”
Amanda was able to return to work a couple of days later and joked: “I read electrical treatment is really good for the brain. I’m hoping it might give me a facelift.”
janine.yaqoob@mirror.co.uk