Beverley Callard 'lost consciousness' on soap set
Former Coronation Street star Beverley Callard has revealed she "lost consciousness" during filming on Irish soap Fair City and was treated by paramedics.
Beverley Callard was treated by paramedics after she "lost consciousness" during filming.
The 69-year-old former Coronation Street star - who is battling breast cancer - was on the set of Irish soap Fair City when she collapsed and passed out prompting worried TV bosses to call an ambulance. In an Instagram post, Beverley has revealed she did not want to be taken to hospital so she was treated by the paramedics on site before being sent home to rest.
She explained: "I've been at work this week, filming the most amazing scenes. Really good, great scripts working with people who are so good, but good fun as well.
"And it was all going swimmingly, and then today, I've no idea what happened to me, but I was all ready to start a new scene with Emily, who plays my daughter, and we just sat there getting ready, about to run lines, and I lost consciousness for a few minutes, maybe 10 minutes, which was very odd.
"Because of protocol, they had to check me out and everything. An ambulance came. I desperately didn't want to go to hospital.
"I recovered and felt fine again but I can't explain what it was. I was boiling hot. I seemed to lose 10 minutes but I don't know why. I was checked out by the ambulance men and everything and they were happy to let me come home as long as I rested."
Beverley went on to explain she will be spending the weekend resting but she now feels "perfectly normal".
She added: "So I've got rest all weekend but now, I have to tell you, I feel a complete fraud because I'm home and I feel perfectly normal.
"The only thing that did happen was my blood pressure was through the roof but obviously I've not been right since the radiotherapy.
"But aside from that, I don't know what's going on. But I'm at the hospital again next week, so I'll probably know more, and I'm awaiting the results of these other tests and the biopsies they've taken from my stomach.
"So, that's it really. As I say, I feel a bit of a fraud, but the dogs know I'm poorly, they won't leave me alone again. So, there we go. If anybody else has had this, please let me know, because I don't know what's going on with me at all. Lots of love."
Beverley went public with her cancer battle back in February and she underwent a course of radiotherapy, which finished in July.
In a video on her Instagram page, Beverley said: 'I've done it. I've just finished my last radiotherapy session. Fingers crossed. Yep, that was number 10 for me and lots of people have to have lots more I know that, but for now that's finished."
When her husband Jon McEwan said that she needs to be doing some “positive thinking”, Beverley replied: "That's it. I know positive thinking. Yes definitely."
The screen star went on to admit she was feeling a bit “numb”, as she added: "To be honest, I feel a bit numb because yesterday I really struggled, but today I've been fine and now I've got to see the professor again in two months, and then I'll know a lot more, and mammograms and oncologists and all that.
"But radiotherapy is finished for now, so I'm really thrilled."
