PETER Andre has revealed that he’d wake up panicking because he couldn’t breathe as he fought coronavirus – and he is still suffering from symptoms of the deadly illness, including psychologically.
The 47-year-old star tested positive for Covid earlier this month – with both he and his GP wife Emily, 31, shocked by the diagnosis as they were convinced it was an unrelated virus at the time.
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The pair both appeared on today’s Good Morning Britain, where Pete gave more of an insight into his recent battle.
Speaking to hosts Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan, the father-of-four shared: “I have still got no sense of smell and I went for a small bike ride yesterday and I was completely pumped out, which never happens to me.
“It’s a psychological thing: ‘Is it going to get worse at some point?’ This is what the problem is.
“I’m 47, I exercise, I feel quite good – and I had a doctor in the house and still there were nights where I’d wake up and I’m thinking… I’m finding it hard to breathe.”
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Gesturing at Emily, he continued: “She was like: ‘Calm down, a lot of it is anxiety’.”
Emily added: “You see it in the media play out so much – you hear all these stories of young people who are getting really unwell and it makes you worried more than you would if you didn’t know it was coronavirus.”
But overall, the Mysterious Girl hitmaker feels lucky that he didn’t suffer as badly as many others with coronavirus.
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He told the hosts: “There was a couple of days it was very unpleasant, but people have had it far worse than me.
“One of my cousins is still on oxygen now and he was sick before me – everyone’s got different symptoms.”
Peter previously documented part of his coronavirus fight in a YouTube video, admitting that at times it was “agony”.
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Emily previously battled coronavirus last year, and is due to get her first vaccine jab at some point this week as she works on the NHS frontline.
The pair married in 2015 and they have two children together; Amelia, seven, and four-year-old Theo.
Peter’s older children from his previous marriage to Katie Price, Princess, 13, and Junior, 15, also live with them.
