Richard Madeley has told Martin Roberts that he and Susanna Reid were 'concerned' about him weeks before he fell ill and ended up hours from death. The Homes Under the Hammer star appeared on Monday's Good Morning Britain from his hospital room after being admitted last week.
Martin 58, told on Thursday (April 22) how he was rushed to hospital following health scare on Wednesday (April 21) and said he had to undergo emergency surgery. Martin said that after feeling unwell things suddenly took a turn for the worse. Taking to social media, Martin shared details of how a 'massive amount of fluid' was discovered around his heart.
Then in an update on Friday, the TV presenter said the heart problem had been "stabilised" but that doctors are still running tests to try and determine what caused the problem in the first place.
Martin has since joined Richard and Susanna on Good Morning Britain to further explain his life-or-death scare in which he revealed his heart was being "strangled" by liquid.
Speaking on GMB on Monday's show, Richard told him: "I have to say to you Martin, when Susanna and I spoke to you when you were in Medyka about a month ago, we spoke after the show and we were a bit concerned about you.
"You had driven pretty much non-stop across Europe to get there, and although you gave a very good account of yourself you looked exhausted. You then came home and this terrible health crisis just suddenly fell out of a clear blue sky."
Martin said: "I am aware of the signs of a heart attack, which is those things but with tingling and things. So like a bloke I thought I'll just make it through the week. By the time it got to Tuesday, Wednesday, I was feeling so rubbish that my wife took me to A&E, and basically I was rushed through A&E and to cut a long story short, they found that I'd actually got water or liquid around my heart, which was compressing the heart to a point where at any point it could have stopped.
"Unlike a normal heart attack there is nothing you can do about it. You can't do the whole defibrillator or chest massage, cos the heart itself is literally being strangled. So within three to four hours I was on an emergency operating ward, having a tube put into this sack around my heart and they drained off a litre and a half of fluid that was literally sort of strangling myself."
Martin then spoke directly to Susanna who was live from the same spot Martin was just a matter of weeks ago at Ukraine's border with Poland. The former I'm A Celebrity star, from Warrington, was inundated with support when he shared his journey to the Ukraine border with Poland after Russia began its invasion of the country.
He drove 26 hours to get important supplies to war-torn Ukraine. Martin's 'mercy dash' saw him take a ferry from Dover to Calais and onwards through France, Belgium and The Netherlands before heading for Germany and onto Poland.
Susanna, 54, had since has travelled to Medyka, one of the busiest of the border crossings, to speak to those crossing and fleeing the war-torn country. Susanna also spoke to the seven-year-old who went viral when a video of her singing 'Let It Go' in a Kyiv bomb shelter was shared online.
But GMB viewers were divided over the decision to send Susanna to Poland and keep Richard hosting solo in the London-based ITV studio.
