Loose Women star Kéllé Bryan reveals hospitalisation

Justin Harp

20 August 2024 at 7:17 pm·2-min read

kelle bryan on loose women 8 20 2024 — Loose Women's Kéllé Bryan reveals hospitalisationKen McKay/ITV/Shutterstock

Loose Women star Kéllé Bryan has revealed she was recently hospitalised.

The former Hollyoaks actor shared on Tuesday's (August 20) edition of the ITV1 daytime series that she was diagnosed with a kidney stone.

Recalling that she experienced recurring pain over a few weeks, she said: "I recognised it because I'd had a brief encounter with it two weeks before, so I had a feeling, this is kidneys. I had that sense. It's worse than labour, debilitating straight away."

The pain got so intense that Kéllé had to ask her 12-year-old son to help coordinate her being taken to the hospital.

"In the end, I had to wake up one of my children. I felt really bad, but I thought, I just can't [wait], this is an emergency. So I crawled up the stairs on my hands and my knees, and I woke him up," she recalled.

"I said 'Mummy just needs your help, I need you to be really grown up, and I need your help' Then he said, 'Right, what do I need to do?'"

The child arranged for emergency services to come, and it was eventually discovered that Kéllé had a kidney stone stuck in her urethra.

While Kéllé prides herself on keeping a healthy lifestyle, the presenter added: "I overeat, which is weird. Too many tomatoes, too much spinach, so it's really about eating well but everything in moderation."

Kéllé has shared some serious health issues with her fans over the years, including suffering a stroke. She's also documented changing her lifestyle after being diagnosed with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease, in 2000.

"Lupus, you're a part of my life, but you're not the whole of my life," she said on Loose Women in 2020. "You need to know your place in my life. I'm incredibly proud of the way I do my best to handle it."

Loose Women airs on ITV.

For more information about Lupus, please visit Lupus UK or the Lupus Research Alliance.

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