Gemma Collins is on a drip and nurse visits her home as she battles exhaustion after getting Covid
GEMMA Collins revealed she was on a drip as she struggled to recover from Covid. Sharing a video of a nurse at her Essex mansion treating her with the drip, the GC admitted some days she “can’t do a thing.” Gemma said: “Today I am poorly, since having Covid it’s really weird, I have these […]
GEMMA Collins revealed she was on a drip as she struggled to recover from Covid.
Sharing a video of a nurse at her Essex mansion treating her with the drip, the GC admitted some days she “can’t do a thing.”
Gemma said: “Today I am poorly, since having Covid it’s really weird, I have these days where I literally can’t do a thing.
“I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing this, but it is just so weird.”
She then shared another photo of her arm with the caption: “Covid deffo makes you feel weird after.”
The reality star looked tired in a makeup-less selfie she shared as she waited for the medication to enter her system.
“Exhausting effects after Covid one day you feel fine another just awful,” she captioned the selfie.
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Gemma also praised her at home nurse for taking such good care of her.
“This is Nena,” she told her millions of fans, as she started to discuss the after-effects of Covid with the medical professional.
“Why is it that one day you can be completely fine and you’ve got loads of energy, then ‘boom’ you’ve got no energy?”
The nurse explained it was all down to individual responses and that the drip Gemma was getting would help with her energy levels and the inflammation in her body.
She instructed Gemma: “Take your time, listen to your body and I’ll see you soon,” as the GC begged her, “can you stay?”
“Please come back, don’t go,” she joked.
Gemma’s battle with her Covid-recovery comes after she self-harmed because she struggled with her meteoric rise to fame.
The 41-year-old was working as a car saleswoman when she first appeared in Towie in 2011 and it wasn’t long until she became one of the show’s most iconic characters.
Speaking about the impact of that for the first time in her new Channel 4 documentary Gemma Collins: Self-Harm and Me, the star told her fiance Rami Hawash what triggered her to hurt herself – but insisted she never considered suicide.
“It was never about you, it was never about any of that,” she said. “It was to do with me, obviously I was going through something and the only way I could relieve the pressure was to cut myself.
“I never wanted to kill myself – that never went through my head.”
Gemma continued: “It was like a coping mechanism for me, so you know, when I just obviously, suddenly got famous and then people were coming up to me every five minutes. The pressure, the build-up, I couldn’t express myself properly.”
Gemma Collins: Self-Harm & Me airs on Wednesday, February 16 at 9pm on Channel 4.
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