Nadia Sawalha was rushed to the hospital after noticing worrying symptoms – minutes before appearing live on Loose Women.
The TV cook, 59, revealed her last appearance on the daytime programme left her ‘panic stricken’ as she discovered something unusual to with her eye.
The panelist explained she was urged by her optician to head straight to the hospital amid a few frightening couple of hours – but claimed has finally a diagnosis.
‘I did the morning meeting, and rang the optician and said I’ve got this, this, this and they said leave now and go straight to A&E,’ she explained on Friday’s show.
‘It was really dramatic, I was really panic stricken actually because I thought I’d just go after the show. And then Gloria came in, because I was going to have to leave the show and there’s never been three.’
Nadia Sawalha was rushed to the hospital after she learned about some worrying symptoms – right before appearing live on Loose Women on Friday’s episode
The panelist, 59, explained she was urged by her optician to head straight to the hospital amid a few frightening couple of hours – but claimed has finally a diagnosis
‘And then Gloria came on the phone, and she said she had an eye surgeon who is a good friend. Anyway, she put me on the phone with a top eye surgeon who asked me more questions. He said it was ok, you can do the show, but then you’ve got to come to A&E straight afterwards.’
After that, the writer headed to A&E, and has now an answer to her health worries, and confirmed she is being well taken care of.
‘The long and short of it is, I’ve got an ageing eye. They’re both ageing, the jelly’s coming off the back. I’ve got a microscopic haemorrhage. I know it’s microscopic but I don’t want a haemorrhage.’
She went on adding: ‘It is worrying. It’ll be fine, I’ve had really good care. It’s amazing, the eye stops seeing what it doesn’t want to see and that will just disappear and the smearing will hopefully go.’
Days before her health scare, Nadia made a political statement about Israel–Hamas war as she arrived at the UK Gala Screening of All Of Us Strangers at BFI Southbank in London at the end of last month.
The actress and television personality held her hands up on the red carpet with the words ‘cease’ and ‘fire’ written on them in black lettering.
She had a red hairband between her fingers, with Nadia having recently been vocal about the armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza strip.
Nadia commanded the attention of onlookers as she held her hands up for the entire time she posed on the red carpet, at one point raising her arms up in the air above her head.
Nadia explained: ‘The long and short of it is, I’ve got an ageing eye. They’re both ageing, the jelly’s coming off the back. I’ve got a microscopic haemorrhage. I know it’s microscopic but I don’t want a haemorrhage’
She went on adding: ‘It is worrying. It’ll be fine, I’ve had really good care. It’s amazing, the eye stops seeing what it doesn’t want to see and that will just disappear and the smearing will hopefully go’
Days before her health scare, Nadia made a political statement about Israel–Hamas war as she arrived at the UK Gala Screening of All Of Us Strangers at BFI Southbank in London at the end of last month
The actress and television personality held her hands up on the red carpet with the words ‘cease’ and ‘fire’ written on them in black lettering
She was recently at the centre of a bitter row after being accused of using her social media account to circulate pro-Palestinian propaganda, while ignoring the suffering of Israelis murdered and kidnapped by Hamas terrorists.
The Mail on Sunday revealed in November last year that ITV was bombarded with complaints from viewers angered by what they claimed was a ‘one-sided’ stance after the conflict began after Hamas terrorists committed atrocities in southern Israel on October 7.
In Instagram posts, Nadia infuriated viewers of Loose Women, many of whom were Jewish, after she appeared to support pro-Palestinian campaigners who argue that the best way to secure the return of the hostages, who include several Brits, was for Israel to adhere to a ceasefire in Gaza, even though many military experts and politicians, including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer, argue this would only allow Hamas time to restock weaponry.
An ITV insider confirmed the channel’s switchboard had been ‘bombarded’ with viewers saying they were angered by Sawalha’s stance on Gaza, and who ‘wanted to know the best way of lodging complaints against her with ITV bosses’.
‘We were quite surprised at the volume of complaints over the past week about Nadia. It’s quite unusual to get this sort of reaction.
‘But then again, Israel/Palestine has always been a very divisive issue.’
People commenting online also asked why she has been ‘silent on 7/10’.
Nadia told MailOnline: ‘I have talked about the awful tragedy of October 7th and the continuing hostage crisis for Israel.
‘As a British-Arab I have also talked about the plight of the Palestinians, and I firmly believe, as do millions of other humanitarians, that a ceasefire is the most humane way forward for both the innocent hostages and the innocent civilians of Gaza and the West Bank.’
Meanwhile, Nadia’s cameraman husband Mark Adderley also waded into the row and defended his wife’s stance suggesting the murder of 1400 men, women and children by Hamas, with over 240 innocents taken hostage in Gaza had been ‘all the attention of sympathy in the world’ but that the conversation had now ‘moved on’.
She had a red hairband between her fingers, with Nadia having recently been vocal about the armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza strip
Nadia commanded the attention of onlookers as she held her hands up for the entire time she posed on the red carpet
All Of Us Strangers – based the film on the 1987 Japanese psychological novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada – is directed by Andrew Haigh and was released in the UK on January 26 (pictured Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott)
Nadia is the daughter of the Jordanian-born British actor Nadim Sawalha and his English wife Roberta Lane. She is the sister of television actress Julia Sawalha and has appeared on Lily Savage’s Blankety Blank with her.
All Of Us Strangers – based the film on the 1987 Japanese psychological novel Strangers by Taichi Yamada – is directed by Andrew Haigh and was released in the UK on January 26.
The film stars Andrew as screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home who enters into a fledgling relationship with a mysterious neighbour (Paul Mescal).
