Actress Sue Cleaver has spoken about how her feet turned blue on set as she was struck by a life-threatening illness.
The 56-year-old who plays Eileen Grimshaw in Coronation Street urged people not to overlook or dismiss aches and pains.
Speaking to Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes on This Morning , she told them how she was rushed to hospital as her temperature soared to 39.9°C.
She said: "Like many, I suffer with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and I just thought I had had a flair up.
"I felt very tired and like I just needed to go home and go to bed."
The next day, in July this year, was one of the hottest days of the year, but Sue felt freezing.
Sue, a mum-of-one said: "My side was sore, and I was on [the Coronation Street] set with a hot water bottle, shaking.
"My feet were blue and in pain. I was freezing on the hottest day of the year. I thought I had the flu."
It was later that night, as Sue tried to sleep, that her husband rang and found it hard to understand her because her teeth were chattering so much.
He rang his daughter, a paramedic, and she advised him to take her straight to A&E. Sue said this saved her life.
Doctors and nurses rushed around the soap star and she was diagnosed with sepsis - a rare but potentially fatal condition, which can cause multiple organ failure.
It had been brought on by a severe kidney infection which Sue had mistaken for IBS pains.
She said she was on bed rest for weeks and suffered from traumatic nightmares following her treatment and it has taken her a lot longer than expected to get better.
But she wanted viewers to listen to her story and learn to listen to their body, and said: "We just put up and get on with things and make excuses. But you can't."
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