Linda Lusardi broke down in tears on live TV, after recalling the moment she feared she "wouldn’t make it" during her coronavirus hell.
The 61-year-old actress and her husband Sam Kane both suffered from the respiratory illness, and she has opened up about the moment she thought she would have to say goodbye to the world.
Appearing on ITV’s ‘Good Morning Britain’ on Wednesday (08.04.20), she said: "I think the second night I was there, Sam was taken downstairs because he’d tested positive – I’d tested negative first of all – and the doctor came in, he was washing his hands.
"I just said, ‘Am I gonna get through this?’ And he said, ‘Well I’ll be honest with you, I can’t promise anything. You’re 61 and we just don’t know what we’re dealing with.’
"At that point, I just thought I’d had it. I rang Sam or text him downstairs, ‘You better come up, I don’t know if I’m gonna make it.’ "
Initially, the couple didn’t think they had coronavirus because the symptoms weren’t thought to be a sign of the illness.
Linda explained: "He got slightly better, he felt like he was getting better so he started to look after me and then he took a bad turn downhill and so did I.
"We were in separate rooms with vomiting and diarrhoea. When we called 111, they said, ‘They’re not symptoms of corona,’ because they weren’t at the time."
After everything she’s been through, Linda has urged the public to listen to the government and not put their loved ones at risk.
She added: "Self-isolate, protect the country and this’ll all be over a lot quicker if we all just follow the rules."
The former ‘Emmerdale’ star also heaped praise on the NHS workers who helped both her and Sam – who are now recovering at home after beating the illness – and said they gave her back her life.
She said: "I can’t thank you enough for your care and attention. I know how scared you all are, but without you – you are the front the line and without you even more people would be dying. I just thank you for giving me my life back, I really do."
Linda Lusardi feared she ‘wouldn’t make it’ during coronavirus hell
