'Went to bed and didn't wake up' Russell Watson on scary moment he was rushed to hospital

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The Big Issue today: “For about two years after that the last thing going through my mind before I went to sleep every night was, I hope I’m not going to die tonight. “And I’d wake up in the middle of the night with panics and palpitations.These finally dissipated and I spoke to my consultant endocrinologist, and I said to her, 'It’s such a great feeling, to have finally stopped thinking about death every night.' “And she said, ‘What do you mean?

My god, you clearly had post-traumatic stress disorder – why didn’t you speak to anyone?’ I said, ‘I just thought it was normal.’”Russell explained to his campmates during filming of I’m A Celebrity in November 2020 that he was “lucky to survive” two tumours.

He spoke to Shane Ritchie and Giovanna Fletcher among others about his near death experience. Russell’s first tumour, like most, was benign, but his second one led to a brain haemorrhage, causing a bleed in his brain.Discussing his experience on the ITV show, Russell said: “The second one was holy s**t, I went home, went to bed and didn’t wake up because of a haemorrhage.“My assistant found me, called the paramedics and I knew I was in trouble because the paramedic kept saying, 'Stay with us, stay with us.’"He was asked by campmates if he had “seen the light” and he responded affirmatively, saying “big time.”“I was in the MRI scanner and I could see this long strip of light, like when you’re a kid and you used to keep your bedroom door open,” he said.The TV star elaborated, saying that he thought at the time that if he walked through the door the “pain would stop” and he’d be okay.“All I could think about was my children and slowly, slowly, while thinking about my children, the clatter of the MRI came back and I thought,.