Linda Lusardi has revealed she had ‘given up’ after doctors said her chances of survival were ‘slim at her age’ during her touch and go battle with Covid.
The former Page Three model, 66, was hospitalized with her husband Sam Kane, 55, in March 2020 after contracting the virus that left her on the verge of ‘death’.
Speaking about her near-fatal health battle, Linda told Anna Richardson about it It can’t be just me podcast she “lost so much weight” and her “limbs turned blue.”
Linda told the podcast host: ‘I was told I wouldn’t make it.
“I honestly gave up because of this young guy [doctor] had said to me, “I can’t promise you anything at your age,” she added.
Linda Lusardi has revealed she had ‘given up’ after doctors said her chances of survival were ‘slim at her age’ during her ‘touch and go’ battle with Covid
The former Page Three model, 66, was hospitalized with husband Sam Kane, 55, in March 2020 after contracting the virus, leaving her at ‘death’s door’
The star previously said she felt like she wanted to die due to the severity of her condition (Linda, pictured in 2012 with Sam)
“It was at the stage where there was no PPE. So they didn’t come into my room. My daughter had to call the hospital reception to have them come and get water.
‘I’ve lost so much weight. My limbs, everything about me was blue, because I wasn’t getting enough oxygen.
‘I just wanted it to stop. I had kind of given up.’
Linda explained that when she was first admitted to hospital, she was one of the first, but by the time she was discharged, it was “like a war zone.”
She revealed that no one could get into the room to see her and the whole experience still has a traumatizing impact on her husband to this day.
Elsewhere in the podcast, Linda said her husband had contacted a woman who was spiritual in the hope she could help her recovery.
Unaware of what her husband had organized, Linda had fallen asleep the night the woman, Jane, planned to visit.
She told Anna: ‘He spoke to me around half past five. I was just able to take off the mask to go to sleep. He said “okay, rest”, he didn’t tell me about it.
She revealed to Anna Richardson (pictured) on her It Can’t Just Be Me podcast that she ‘lost so much weight’ and her ‘limbs turned blue’
Linda told the podcast host: ‘I was told I wouldn’t make it.’ “I honestly gave up because of this young guy [doctor] had said to me: I can’t promise you anything at your age’
‘During that sleep that I had for about an hour and a half, I kept thinking about the children and thinking: ‘Are I okay?’
‘The lucid dreams I had, and I woke up with a smile on my face and I just thought, “I’m going to be okay, I’m going to be okay, it’s not going to get me.”
‘I called Sam and took the mask completely off my face and said, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll be fine.’
‘I’m going to get through this. I just feel like I’m doing well. I had color in my cheeks that I didn’t have before.
“But the funniest thing was Jane calling him and saying, ‘I’ve been there and her energy is very stagnant.’ I got it moving, it’s moving now, it’s moving slowly, but you didn’t tell me she was that feisty. I thought she would be like a flower, this little girl. But god, she’s feisty.” And we became good friends.”
Linda previously revealed during her battle with Covid that she ‘felt her organs failing’.
Speak with talkRADIO in 2020, the star said she felt like she wanted to die due to the severity of her condition.
Linda explained that when she first went to the hospital she was one of the first, but by the time she was discharged it was ‘like a war zone’
Linda’s career began in the 1970s as a girl and in the years since she has had roles as a television host and actress (Linda pictured in 1982)
She said: ‘You get into a mindset where you almost want to go because it’s so uncomfortable and painful and you feel so bad.
‘I said to the ambulance lady: if you don’t take me, I’m going to die in this bed. I knew I would.
“I think I probably had 24 hours, maybe 48 hours, and I would have gone because I felt like my body was dying.
‘It’s nothing you can explain to people because if you haven’t been there you think ‘how could you know’, but you can almost feel your organs failing.
“You just lie back and think, ‘I have to give in, I give in, you’re going to take me with you.’