Charlotte Hawkins said she has experienced “brain fog”
(Picture: AP)Charlotte Hawkins laid bare her struggle with long Covid following her battle with the killer virus.
The Good Morning Britain presenter, 46, took a break away from her high-flying TV career when she was struck down with coronavirus.
Now back to work, the TV star confessed she has been left with long Covid symptoms.
She said she has experienced “absolute” exhaustion, “brain fog” and leg numbness while speaking on Friday’s Good Morning Britain.
She told viewers at home: “I was obviously really grateful that I had just mild symptoms, I had extreme tiredness at the time, and cold-like, symptoms.
“Coming back to work on Monday I felt okay, and then just absolute exhaustion hit me, and that’s kind of how I felt all week this week.
“And that sort of really wobbly feeling, the brain fog. Yesterday, I had a situation with my leg that went completely numb and I had a pain. I rang the doctors and had to go in to have it checked for a suspected blood clot, it wasn’t luckily, which I’m very grateful for.
“I think I sort of assumed because I’ve been lucky enough to have it mildly, that I would emerge from this and think everything would get better. But there are so many people who are living with all sorts of strange after symptoms, of all varying degrees.”
Office for National Statistics suggests more than a million people in the UK are estimated to be experiencing self-reported long Covid.
The data lifted the lid on the 1.1 million people in private households experiencing long Covid during the four weeks to September 5.
Ms Hawkins’ co-hosts Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway shared their sympathy with the star.
Mr Shephard said: “We’re used to tiredness when we come off air, but this is a very different sort of tiredness,” to which Hawkins clarified: “It’s absolute exhaustion.
“I’ve just got to come straight back home and go to bed and that’s it, can’t do anything.”
