Sky Sports presenter Charlie Webster, 36, was placed in a medically induced coma after contracting a rare form of malaria while in Brazil for the Olympics in 2016. Speaking of the aftermath of her ordeal, the TV star said her kidneys are “permanently damaged” meaning she can no longer drink alcohol. She explained: “The main thing is that I don’t drink alcohol anymore, at all. I’m not allowed to. It could put them under too much pressure.”
Charlie went on to explain she also isn’t allowed to have “too much salt” in her diet.
She added: “Diet-wise, it’s mainly salt I can’t have, which is really hard because I’ve not got a sweet tooth, I’ve got a salt tooth.
“Whenever I have too much salt I swell up and feel really sick.”
She added: “I’m not allowed to take ibuprofen or any anti-inflammatory drugs, or antibiotics.”
Charlie went on to say despite being hospitalised three years ago, she received “bad results” for her kidney and liver when tested a year ago.
She went onto say: “I came out of the hospital and broke down in tears.
“I was so frustrated, I was so angry, because I was really healthy before – which is one of the reasons I survived.”
But insisting she tried to think positively, she added: “I was like, no, hang on: They said I wasn’t going to survive and I survived, so this is not going to debilitate me.”
Back in 2016, Charlie was told by doctors she was dying after contracting malaria.
After surviving the ordeal, the presenter said professionals had told her it was a “miracle” for her to be alive.
Speaking at the United Nations Foundation in 2017, she said: “It might seem a bit shocking but nine months ago I was actually in a coma and had a machine keeping me alive.
“My outlook, 100 per cent, was death.
“According to doctors, it’s a complete miracle I’m stood here talking to you today.”
Following her ordeal, Charlie was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.
She told The Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine: “When you’ve been through what I have, your head can have problems processing it.
“People do find it difficult to understand.”
