Alan Carr reveals worrying health scare as he undergoes terrifying procedure
Alan Carr reveals worrying health scare as he undergoes terrifying procedure
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Beloved TV funnyman Alan Carr has dished on his terrifying “health scare” and fears he is losing his sight. The 48-year-old comedian has revealed how he had to have his eyeballs drained at a specialist eye hospital and said a “spike” was stuck into his eyeball under anaesthetic.
The bespectacled stand-up comic and TV host said the experience was “surreal” and left him “so worried”. Speaking on his own podcast, Life’s a Beach, Carr told guest and fellow comic Grace Campbell: "I've got astigmatism - I kept telling people I had stigmata, like the wounds of Christ. Get over yourself, Alan.
"I had a bit of a health scare. I went to Moorfields [Eye Hospital, London]. I've got something wrong with my eyes - quite a bit of pressure. I hate the glaucoma thing, when they squirt the air in your eyes. I had something wrong with my eyes in the cornea. I was so worried.".
He added: "He had to basically choke me because this air going into my eye was too much. At Moorfields they anaesthetised my eyeball, and then the spike came in on to the lens to see if it worked. "They said: 'Just relax Alan, and just concentrate on the spike going into your eye.' I'm like excuse me? What? Oh good, the spike is coming closer. Relax! It was so surreal. Losing my sight is my worst thing, and I can feel it getting worse.
