Loose Women star Judi Love has issued a warning after her son was rushed to hospital and she battled illness for four weeks
Loose Women’s Judi Love has issued a stark warning to viewers regarding the ‘super flu’ that’s currently circulating after her son required emergency hospital treatment.
The comedian featured on yesterday’s Loose Women panel, where the presenters discussed the latest flu variant during the live broadcast.
Revealing her personal ordeal, Judi confessed: “I look tired because I am tired. I’ve been fighting. It’s been four weeks – first with my daughter. She got better again. Then sick again.”
She revealed that she relied on co-presenter Charlene White for support throughout the crisis, explaining: “You had to even collect her from the hospital. And then my son got really unwell. He ended up in hospital.”
She continued: “It’s been back and forth. Massive shout-out to the ambulance and the NHS, they were amazing.
“There’s so much talk about different jabs and all of these speculations that go around. I think people just brush it over. They think, ‘I don’t need it,’ or it’s some conspiracy.
“It is very much an individual choice – look at your circumstances, you family history and make that decision for yourself.
“What I’ve seen over these past four weeks where I have been back and fourth with this virus or whatever it is, it’s actually more serious than I would have thought about four weeks ago,” reports the Mirror.
Judi revealed that she also has mates currently hospitalised with the virus. “To me, it was, ‘It’s just winter – rub a little rum on you, take a little Vicks, whatever.’
“But actually seeing how I’ve been trying to manage it and hearing more and more people are sick, I’ve got friends in hospital, I’ve got friends that are sick.
“So for me, I’ve started acting how I used to act in Covid – wearing a mask when I need to.”
Judi is mum to two children – a 20-year-old daughter and a 14-year-old son.
This follows NHS England’s announcement that the UK is experiencing its most brutal flu surge in decades, with an average of 2,660 patients hospitalised with flu each day last week.
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