Corrie legend has terrifying backstage panic attack - minutes before appearing live on Loose Women

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Coronation Street's Simon Gregson has opened up about his 20-year anxiety battle on Loose Women - and how he almost didn't go on the show after suffering a panic attack shortly beforehand.The soap star stopped by Thursday 2 January's show to raise awareness of mental health, revealing that he nearly pulled out of the appearance. "It all came to a head in 2015, I kept having anxiety attacks, panic attacks," he told the Loose Women panel. "Which is so bizarre because I've been having them all day today.

I was like, 'there's no way I can go on.' "It just hits you like a tonne of bricks and makes you completely incapacitated. I've been having them since 1990 but I just got on with it." Simon decided to address his regular panic attacks after noticing that his kids were suffering with the same issue. "When I had children and they were noticing it and they were getting anxious, I thought, 'I've passed it on.

It's like a cold - I've given it to them.'" The actor, who is best known for playing Weatherfield icon Steve McDonald, previously spoke about his struggle with panic attacks - admitting that at one point, he was suffering up to 12 panic attacks per day.The 50-year-old revealed how producers on the ITV soap called in a doctor to come to the set to help him as his condition came to a head.

He also spoke about how he had to visit a psychiatrist because his mental health was causing him to believe he was suffering from mystery illnesses.