Coronation Street star Lisa George, 47, has opened up about being partially blind in her right eye after haemorrhaging behind her optic nerve four years ago. The actress discussed her health as she addressed being away from the soap and her Dancing on Ice experience.
Recalling her ordeal, Lisa revealed: “I haemorrhaged behind my optic nerve four years ago and I’m half-blind in my right eye.
“They said it was like a stroke but also I got hit in the eye with a bit of rope.
“They think I’d had some mini-stroke but a specialist said it has to be the rope.”
Lisa went on to say she still doesn’t know what the actual cause was.
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Thankfully, Lisa overcome her injury and returned to the show to compete.
In her most recent interview, the actress said she also popped her intercostal muscles three times on the show and bruised her ribs.
“I couldn’t lay down, the pain was so bad,” she said.
“I dislocated my wrist and had a really bad fall on my knee, I actually thought I’d broken it.”
