Megan McKenna was rushed to hospital with a worryingly high temperature last week.
The ‘Only Way is Essex’ star – who battles with coeliac disease – was forced to leave the National Television Awards, held at London’s The O2 arena, early last night (23.01.18) after she began to feel unwell again after – just days after she was diagnosed with infectious colitis.
A source told The Sun Online: "Megan was rushed to hospital by ambulance with a temperature of 40 last week – and no one knew what was wrong with her. She felt so sick, she didn’t even have the energy to pick up her phone. She spent her time in hospital hooked up to a drip – that’s why her arms are bruised – and was later diagnosed with infectious colitis. "Megan was gutted she had to leave [the NTAs] early, but her health has to come first. As much as she was looking forward to a good night out, it just wasn’t worth the risk."
This isn’t the first time the 25-year-old beauty has fallen ill just before a big event as last year she was taken to hospital when she had a flare up of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) just before she was due to fly to Tennessee to film her show ‘There’s Something About Megan’.
She said at the time: "I was so ill with my belly before I went to Nashville and I was in and out of the hospital and no one knew what was wrong with me, so yes I was thin as I was unwell. People need to realise I’m always going to have problems with this and not troll me."
Colitis is a chronic and life-long condition in which the colon and rectum become inflamed.
Megan McKenna rushed to hospital with high temperature
