Adam Thomas has opened up about his mother’s recent horror health ordeal (Image: YouTube)
Adam Thomas has opened up about his mother, Gail’s, horrifying hospital ordeal. On Wednesday (July 8), the I’m A Celebrity star recalled the moment he found his mum screaming on the floor in the latest episode of his podcast At Home with The Thomas Bros, which he hosts with his brothers Scott and Ryan. The 37-year-old started discussing a recent operation she underwent in the hospital.
He told listeners: “She rang me to pick her up from the hospital. It’s the first time I saw her in quite a lot of pain, and looked at her and thought she’s getting older.” After wheeling her out of the hospital, the Waterloo Road star let his mum stay with him for a few days to recover because she wasn’t well enough to live on her own.We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time.
During this recovery period, Scott revealed that their mother had called him, “screaming ‘Get round here now’.” He added: “I arrived and she was on the floor, screaming in so much pain. She was like, ‘I’ve called an ambulance, I don’t know what’s going to happen. I think I’m dying’.
“The ambulance came out and basically calmed her down and said, ‘Listen, we think you’ve got a stomach bug’.” After being seen by paramedics, Gail attempted to carry on as normal, but 48 hours later, she was still in excruciating pain and called Scott again.
He continued: “The third day, she rang me again and said it had come back again, we called an ambulance again, and she was in so much pain. When she went to the hospital, she was told she had gallstones and had to have her gallbladder removed, and she’s been an absolute soldier.”
This was the latest revelation the star shared on the family podcast, with Adam previously sharing his true feelings about how the final of I’m A Celebrity… South Africa affected him. During his stint on the All Star version, Adam became embroiled in a feud with David Haye and Jimmy Bullard, which concluded in a sweary and tearful rant.
The TV star shared what it was really like to work on the ITV reality show (Image: Jonathan Hordle/ITV/Shutterstock)
David had berated Adam in camp and called him “useless” when the actor, who suffers from arthritis, said he felt ill, while Jimmy quit the show mid-challenge, putting the soap star at risk of elimination. On the podcast, Adam explained that he was “anxious” about the show hitting the airwaves because of the “hard time” he went through.
He told them: “As the series goes on, you’ll see me having a hard time with some campmates and a part of me coming out that I’ve not seen before. I wasn’t dreading it, but I was anxious about it.”
The TV star later insisted that he was a different person from the one who walked into the Jungle and had to start therapy when the show ended. Adam admitted: “I know for a fact that I’m not the same person that went into the Jungle. I’m in therapy, it f***ed with me mentally. I thought, ‘How is this happening? I’m a 37-year-old man’.”
Trying to explain why he struggled on the show so much, he went on: “I was putting other people’s feelings before mine. So I just took it until eventually, it got to a point where I was literally at breaking point.” Adam described his time on the show as “so lonely”, before he had to stop speaking as he fought back tears.
