To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Susanna Reid was left fighting back tears during an emotional Good Morning Britain interview. The 54-year-old presenter joined Ed Balls on Tuesday’s ITV programme, where they heard from the mother of a teenager who died of cardiac arrest minutes away from a locked defibrillator.
Jamie Rees died aged 18 in 2022 after suddenly collapsing on New Year’s Day when his heart stopped. His mother Naomi is now campaigning for police cars to carry defibrillators to prevent other tragedies and ‘take the panic out of the situation’. Jamie’s family have also been able to help others after he signed up to donate his organs.
‘Losing a child is unspeakably dreadful,’ Susanna, who is mum to three boys, had said, hearing about Jamie’s story. Naomi went on: ‘One of the reasons we do what we do is because Jamie had signed the organ donor register three times in his short life, and I stood outside the front of Coventry Hospital the morning after we lost Jamie, and I watched Jamie’s lungs take off in a helicopter to go to Bristol.
‘Jamie saved five lives including that of an eight-month-old baby girl on the night that we lost him. ‘I knew from that second that that wasn’t going to be the end of Jamie’s life, he was meant to save lives and since we launched Jamie’s Foundation, he’s saved 13 more lives with his defibrillators, and I know that he will go on and save hundreds of lives.
