Vanessa Feltz has revealed how a huge kidney stone saw her rushed into hospital for emergency surgery after leaving her “doubled over in agony”.
The Daily Express columnist was having lunch with her two grandchildren on Sunday when she was struck down with sudden agonising stomach pains.
Speaking from the hospital this morning, she told the Daily Express: “I was having a normal Sunday lunch, with my beloved grandchildren AJ, five, and Cecily, two… then felt the most dreadful pain. I’ve given birth to two children naturally and have never felt anything like it. I was doubled over in agony.”
Her daughters, Allegra and Saskia, called 999 and the 62-year-old broadcaster was taken to hospital by ambulance from her home in north-west London where a scan revealed the kidney stone and she was operated on overnight.
“It’s been fixed now, and I’m extremely grateful to all my first responders – from my daughters to all the nurses and porters, plus the much-needed anaesthetist and a wonderful surgeon,” said Vanessa.
Vanessa assured readers she was being well looked after and should make a swift recovery but added: “Take it from me – an unwarranted hospital visit is no fun.”
She also passed on her sympathy to her fellow Celebs Celebs Go Dating star Lottie Moss after it was revealed the model, younger half-sister to Kate Moss, had been hospitalised after an overdose of miracle drug Ozempic, which is used as an appetite suppressant.
“I found her funny, fragile, beautiful, insecure and a kind and sympathetic listener,” said Vanessa of the 26-year-old.
“As a yo-yo dieter unable to maintain my increasingly hard-won weight loss, I’d have once been grateful for an Ozempic prescription. Then the miracle drug wasn’t available and I ended up going under the knife for a gastric bypass.
“There’s nothing particularly wrong with Ozempic itself, which is a lifesaver for the chronically out-of-control overweight. Unfortunately the jabs are open to abuse. Unsafe copycat jabs are sold online and slim folk like Lottie think they’ll give them a whirl to shed a few surplus pounds. Ozempic is medication not recreation – and not to be taken by anyone but the clinically obese under qualified medical supervision.”