Former BBC Breakfast star Louise Minchin has detailed a terrifying incident in hospital, where she was worried she was going to die. The newsreader, 56, who co-hosted BBC Breakfast until 2021 , shares two daughters with her husband, Mia and Scarlett. Recalling the birth of her eldest, Mia, Louise has shared she was in need of counselling after a ‘traumatic’ experience.
‘I think I’ve been through quite a few things in my life that I just put them in a box and shut it,’ she began, speaking on Gabby Logan’s The Mid-Point podcast . ‘That’s what I do with lots of things, when Mia was born, that’s the only thing I’ve ever kind of had to seek help for actually. ‘When Mia was born, a week after she was born, I had a burst appendix.
It was really, really serious.’ Louise said that it was a ‘ridiculous’ coincidence that her appendix had burst while she was in hospital, but didn’t know if the pain was linked to her pregnancy or not. She continued: ‘It was my first pregnancy so I didn’t know.
I kept telling them that I had this pain, but they just thought, “It was your body, you’re having this baby, what do you expect?” ‘Literally six days after she was born and it burst while I was in hospital and it was very dramatic and very traumatic. ‘That’s the only thing I’ve ever had help with actually, because I thought I was going to die six days after my baby was born.’ Louise previously said that after her appendix burst, she was diagnosed wit.
