Amanda Holden describes how she nearly died after childbirth and how the NHS saved her life: ‘I passed away for 40 seconds’

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Amanda Holden has described how she almost died after slipping into a coma following the birth of her daughter, Hollie. Luckily, the Britain’s Got Talent judge was saved by NHS workers.Another day, another inspiring story about our health service.

Amanda, whose new single Somewhere Over The Rainbow will raise money for NHS Charities Together, shared her story on Heart Breakfast today. ‘When I gave birth to Hollie, my eight-year-old daughter who I know is listening, she was an emergency and I haemorrhaged, basically,’ Amanda said on the show. ‘And I actually did pass away for 40 seconds and then I went into a coma, but the NHS were there holding my hand and my husband’s [Chris Hughes] hand, who – I feel sorry for him to be honest – he went