Bucks Fizz star Jay Aston's daughter has opened up about the side effects she is experience after nearly dying from meningitis.
Josie, 19, nearly died earlier this year after contracting the illness, with her parents told that she had only a 50 per cent chance of survival.
The Bucks Fizz star saved her daughter after she spotted early signs of meningitis following her husband's near-death experience from the illness.
Jay had originally thought her daughter's devastating condition could be heatstroke, but acted quickly once she realised it was something more severe - getting the teenager to hospital herself when an ambulance failed to show.
Doctors put the teenager in an induced coma after her organs began to fail, and she was in a specialist kidney unit.
Thankfully, Josie has since made a recovery - but has revealed that she is suffering from kidney problems.
She appeared on Lorraine in her first TV interview with her mum, who revealed: "Well her kidneys aren't right yet. The last blood test that she had they were functioning at just 12%. So we are hoping that she can avoid dialysis later on or a transplant.
"They've started moving - it was stuck at seven and it's getting better every week. They'll test them at the end of the month and we're just praying we'll get her up to 20% and out of the red zone."
"You're young and you're strong," Lorraine insisted.
Josie also opened up about what the ordeal had been like, saying that it "happened so quickly".
"I started feeling a bit unwell, I was shaking uncontrollably," she said. "I thought it was heatstroke... then flu..."
Jay said that when she noticed the "Dalmatian spots" on her arm she knew what was wrong.
Josie was rushed to hospital at 3.30am and the following morning Jay and husband Dave Colquhoun were told that their daughter had a 50-50 chance of dying.
"They sat me in this room and they said 'she may die'," she said. "I just shut down."
*Lorraine airs weekdays at 9am on ITV
