Anthea Turner 'nearly blinded in one eye' after freak hotel accident

ok.co.uk:

Anthea Turner has detailed the freak accident she experienced during a hotel stay that nearly left her blind in one eye.The TV veteran, 61, whose Real Dirty Dancing pal Lee Ryan said James Argent was "obsessed" with her, took to her Instagram feed to post a series of front page news articles before detailing what happened to her.

In the caption, she wrote: "Just posting these now because I want to keep you safe - You might have seen in the press 2 weeks ago a story I told of a near fatal accident I had with my left eye, but because there were no outside visible signs I did the classic thing which is, think it’ll all go away," with a side eyes emoji.

Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter However, the incident actually came close to her experiencing a retinal detachment, which would have made her permanently blind in one eye.

She said: "But what I didn’t realise is I’d actually due to the impact of a pull down blind cord smacking me square in the eye made a tear in my retina and came frighteningly close to retinal detachment which results in permanent blindness." Anthea, who opened up on her feud with Eamonn Holmes last year and said she was "still hurt", went on: "put this message to the back of your mind in case you need it which is - If you sustain ANY injury to your eye go and get it checked out immediately, I did after a week [hands covering eyes monkey emoji] then was literally rushed into an operating room and due to the expertise of vitreoretinal surgeon @chien_wong_ at @ocl_vision I live to fight another day.