Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson was rushed to hospital in a “painful” ordeal after berating the National Health Service.
The motoring journalist and farmer suffered another health scare last week that required urgent medical attention.
It comes a year after the 65-year-old was just days from death before he underwent heart surgery to clear blocked arteries.
Writing in The Sunday Times, Mr Clarkson disclosed that he spent last Sunday at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after reporting a “very hot neck”.
The writer and broadcaster revealed that he was treated for an ailment he refused to disclose because “that’s none of your business”.
Hours before his admission, Mr Clarkson’s newspaper column was published in which he branded the NHS a “creaking old monster”.
The father-of-three criticised officials for allowing international doctors who had been struck off in their native countries to work in Britain.
They had to chisel me off the ceiling with a spatula
Mr Clarkson called his treatment “Defcon1 painful”, adding: “They had to chisel me off the ceiling with a spatula afterwards.”
He praised the “spotless” hospital and kind medical professionals, admitting: “I genuinely couldn’t find anything to moan about.”
However, Mr Clarkson said his positive experience failed to alter his opinion on the health service, saying: “We as a nation cannot afford it.”
Mr Clarkson, who recently claimed to have lost about a stone and a half after using the Mounjaro weight-loss jab, said he gave up paying for private healthcare because of insurers' reluctance to pay out
