Jonathan Ross has shared the extent of his daughter Betty's health battle, after her diagnosis with life-changing illness fibromyalgia.
Talk show host and Masked Singer star Jonathan appeared as a guests on Friday's Loose Women and, as well as talking about his famous parties and what he enjoyed cooking at Christmas, was asked about how Betty was doing, since her diagnosis and a 'tough few years.'
Jonathan told the panel, including host Kaye Adams, Denise Welch and Frankie Bridge, that at first, the family thought Betty had long Covid, before opening up on her health battles, explaining: "She has fibromyalgia and she has chronic fatigue syndrome and POTS syndrome as well, which is where your heart rate shoots up.”
Discussing her current treatment, he added: “We found a good… there's a thing called the Perrin treatment. The guy who invented it, he came to talk to me about it and she looked it up online because she's a smart young woman, so she has to want to do the treatment.
“You know, I mean, I can't just say to her ‘try this, try that’ if she thinks it’s wrong in some way and if she’s not going to enter it one hundred percent, of course it's not worth doing. But we've been having that treatment going on and she's definitely showing some improvement.”
Jonathan candidly spoke about just how large an impact Betty's health battle has had on her life and how the family do things a whole, adding: "She still can't walk very far. We got her an electric wheelchair in the summer, so we can at least go out and go for walks with the dogs and that's lifted her spirits a lot.
“Because that's the problem, if anyone out there who knows or who's got someone with a long term illness, you know, it's the depression. Being stuck indoors and not being able to join in with things because even stairs are a challenge to her. So if we're going out we have to give her plenty of time to get ready, get downstairs and then have a rest before we go to the next step, you know. "
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