EXCLUSIVE: The singer, 45, admitted: “I’m not feeling 100% right now.”
Kerry Katona has opened up about the ongoing effects of her recent health scare, saying she’s having a fully body check-up and admitting: “My speech still isn’t quite right and I’m exhausted.”
Writing in New magazine the former Atomic Kitten star said: “I’ve just booked myself a full body MOT with my friends at Pall Mall Medical, as I’m not feeling 100% right now.
“My speech still isn’t quite right and I’m exhausted. The problem is, I never put myself first. I’m either on tour, or something’s happening with the kids that needs attention.”
Mum of five Kerry, 45, added: “I know I don’t look after myself properly, so I’m getting my bloods done, a smear test, stool sample, the full works. I take a lot of vitamins, thanks to the wonderful Dr Andre from the Oxford Natural Clinic, but while you can always look amazing on the outside, it’s what’s inside that’s important.”
Hardworking Kerry explained in April that she’d had to go to hospital amid fears she was suffering a stroke in London watching her eldest daughter Molly in a new play.
She started to feel unwell midway through the performance and afterwards realised she couldn’t smile properly – a tell-tale sign of a stroke. Kerry, who was with her daughter Heidi and partner Paolo Margaglione said, “As the day went on, I didn’t feel well. I went to the toilet and noticed my face wasn’t right.
“Heidi was like, ‘Mum, what’s wrong with your face?’ I started panicking. I discreetly left, went to my hotel and asked to see a doctor. I told the staff, ‘Something’s not right.’” A doctor wasn’t available for four hours, so the mum-of-five took a taxi to St Thomas’ Hospital.
“I got there, and they said, ‘We’re treating this as a stroke,’ so they blue-lit me in an ambulance from St Thomas’ to King’s College Hospital,” explains Kerry. “They were shining lights in my eyes while my face and speech were getting worse.
“An hour ago I was watching our Molly in a play and now I’m being treated for a stroke. What the actual f**k? It just shows how quickly things can change.”
The situation was so dire that Kerry, 45, messaged all of her children – Molly, 24, Lilly, 23, Heidi, 19, Max, 18, and 12-year-old Dylan-Jorge – fearing that she might never get to speak to them again.
“It really, really scared me,” she says. “I texted all my children and told them I loved them. I’ve never been so scared in my life.” At hospital, Kerry was subjected to various tests, including CT scans, before finally being told what was causing the changes in her speech and face.
“It was a suspected stroke, but luckily that was ruled out after my scans. Instead the CT scans showed there’s a part of my brain that’s broken and isn’t able to send signals to my face due to stress,” she says.
“I’ve spoken to Anna Williamson from Celebs Go Dating about it since, and apparently it can also happen when you’re feeling content. It’s like delayed stress hitting you suddenly because you feel at peace. Every now and then, I’ll get a shooting pain in my head. And I’m noticing my speech – even though I think I’m saying something properly in my head, it doesn’t sound right out loud.”
She added: ““I don’t know if it’s because I’m run down from balancing family life, but I don’t have a social life. I don’t go out drinking. I don’t socialise with anybody outside of my circle, which is Paolo and my kids,” she says.”
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