80s singer Hazel O’Connor suffers bleed on brain

SINGER and actress Hazel O’Connor has suffered a bleed on the brain, her family revealed last night.

The star – famous for 1980s hits Eighth Day and Will You? – was taken to hospital after being found at her home in the south of France. She was placed in a coma for 24 hours where the situation was ‘touch and go’, her brother Neil O’Connor, said.

He added that she has since showed ‘a lot of progress’ and is ‘responding to stimuli and treatment’.

‘She’s receiving the best of care and I thank the French medical service there for taking such good care of her,’ he wrote on Instagram. ‘So, please, all positive thoughts, vibes, intentions are appreciated. She’s going to need patience from us and from herself, I’ve already learned that she’s started to show her usual feistiness.’

The 66-year-old star, pictured, had been scheduled to play a delayed anniversary tour in March, marking 40 years since the release of her debut album Breaking Glass.

The LP was the soundtrack to the film of the same name, in which she starred alongside Phil Daniels and Sir Jonathan Pryce as an angry young punk singer-songwriter.