Holly Willoughby appeared to be keeping her emotions in as she spoke to the mum of a young boy who is facing having his life support switched off.
Hollie Dance is fighting to save her 12-year-old son Archie Battersbee alongside his dad, Paul. The parents believe their son Archie may have been taking part in an online challenge when he was found unconscious at home.
He is now at the centre of a life support treatment dispute which claims that parts of his brain have died. Doctors treating Archie at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, think the youngster is “brain-stem dead”.
They say life-support treatment should end and the youngster should be disconnected from a ventilator. His parents, from Southend, Essex, say the youngster’s heart is still beating and want treatment to continue.
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