Only Fools' Sir David Jason collapsed after Covid left him too weak to stand

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Only Fools and Horses star Sir David Jason has revealed he recently collapsed after contracting "seriously bad" Covid-19.The TV legend, 82, was speaking to BBC Breakfast presenter Jon Kay about his new book, when he revealed that he recently collapsed while getting out of bed one night when he had covid-19 during the Summer.The Open All Hours star said: "I got it seriously bad."Because all the muscles weren't working, I collapsed and I fell against the radiator...

I was so weak, I couldn't get up."READ NEXT: Only Fools, Skins and Gavin and Stacey - British TV remakes that flopped in the USSaying that he tried to get out of bed to go to the toilet, Sir David explained that he had to use the bed to try and stand up as his muscles "weren't working.""I crawled to the bed.

The muscles weren't working and I used the bed to try and stand up so that I could go to where I wanted to get, and also get back into bed, and I couldn't…"I tried for about a quarter of an hour, trying all sorts of things to stand up so I could walk about."Sir David added that he attempted to get to the door to call to his wife, but had to figure out an alternative way to get to the door as his "arms really weren't working and the legs weren't working."He said: "Being a very creative and inventive person, I thought, how will I get from here to the door?"You know when you see a walrus if you watch David Attenborough, and they walk on land, they crawl on land?

That's what I did."But in order to do that, I had to use my head. So now I'm lying face down on the ground, and in order to get to the door - and the arms really weren't working and the legs weren't working - I was using my head to drag me to the door."The star continued: "So just as I got to the door,.