Strictly star reveals he was rushed to hospital when he couldn’t ‘talk, see or breathe’
A STRICTLY star has revealed he was rushed to hospital when he couldn’t ‘talk, see or breathe’.
AJ Pritchard has recalled a terrifying experience when he woke up one morning unable to breathe.
The professional dancer, 28, revealed he was suffering what he describes as the “worst panic attack”.
He was rushed to hospital as he said he “couldn’t see, couldn’t talk, couldn’t walk”.
Speaking to The Mirror, Strictly‘s AJ said he was then rushed to hospital.
“Even they thought I had some crazy disease, they were going to do a lumbar puncture,” he said.
“I was delirious, there was nothing coming out of me. I just sat rocking in the dark.”
AJ said he now wishes he reached out for support about his mental health sooner.
“I kept insisting that I was fine but I obviously wasn’t,” he admitted.
“It took me being taken to hospital and going through multiple panic attacks before I could admit that I needed to talk to somebody.”
He added how there were ‘warning signs’ such as headaches and skipping lunch during his busy training days.
“The body is amazing thing if we just listened to it, which half of us don’t.”
Meanwhile, AJ is locked in a feud with Love Island’s Arabella Chi after she ‘cost him’ a huge sum of money in a new TV show.
The duo were partnered together in The Challenge – a new game show that pits reality stars against each other in order to win a big prize pot.
But the pair didn’t prove to be a very effective team and failed to make it into the final three where they could have competed for £50,000.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, AJ claimed Arabella let him down and said he can’t forgive her.
He fumed: “We did not make the final three. If myself and Arabella made the final three, I’d have put my life on it that I would’ve won that show.
“But it seems as though it was Arabella that got Curtis [Pritchard] knocked out and it was Arabella again that got me knocked out the final and lost me £50,000.”
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