Strictly star Greg Rutherford was rushed to hospital by his fiancée Susie Verrill on Saturday following a terrifying health crisis.
The British track and field athlete, 36, was left screaming, clawing at his skin and delirious in the midst of a suspected allergic reaction, during which Susie was forced to drive him to hospital due to a 40 minute wait for an ambulance.
In a terrifying account of the dramatic incident, the blogger took to Instagram to detail how she watched while he went into a drug-like state before being ‘pumped full of steroids and antihistamines’ in hospital.
The couple, who have been together since 2012 and share daughter Daphne, two, and two sons; eight-year-old Milo, and five-year-old Rex, were then in A&E, where doctors failed to provide a diagnosis in the terrifying crisis.
Alongside an image of the sportsman in a hospital bed, Susie penned: ‘Had quite literally the scariest time of my life yesterday…
Help: Strictly star Greg Rutherford was rushed to hospital by his fiancée Susie Verrill on Saturday following a terrifying health crisis
Horrific: The British track and field athlete, 36, was left screaming, clawing at his skin and delirious in the midst of a suspected allergic reaction, during which Susie was forced to drive him to hospital due to a 40 minute wait for an ambulance
In need: In a terrifying account of the dramatic incident, the blogger took to Instagram to detail how she watched while he went into a drug-like state before being ‘pumped full of steroids and antihistamines’ in hospital
‘Was enjoying a lovely roast at a friends’ house with the kids, Greg was at home because he’d been for a run and he text to say he was having an allergic reaction to something and felt itchy.
‘I didn’t think much of it until he rang me screaming two minutes later. And I mean SCREAMING. He shouted ‘YOU NEED TO GET HERE NOW’ and so I drove back to our house while calling an ambulance, terrified I was about to get home and find him not breathing.
‘999 said it would take 40 minutes, but that’s another issue to discuss for another day. Anyway I ran in the house found Greg there again, screaming. Acting like one of those people you see in videos where they’ve taken bath salts…
‘He was clawing at his skin and just screaming. Repeatedly. He ran to our car and while I rang 999 again to say I’d have to take him, we had to run every red light and I had to focus on not crashing while he screamed and tried to grab the wheel…
‘He was delirious and I looked like I was kidnapping him. I was on the phone to the 999 call handler and the poor girl just kep saying, ‘OK, yeah he doesn’t sound good, please be safe but hurry’.
Horrendous: The couple, who have been together since 2012 and share three children, were then in A&E, where doctors failed to provide a diagnosis in the terrifying crisis
In another post she continued: ‘I threw him out at A&E, parked and when I got there they told me they’d sent him through to Resus – I think mainly because he was a 6ft 3 bloke acting like a psychopath and didn’t want to scare anyone.
‘They pumped him full of steroids and antihistamines and it seemed to work pretty much immediately. Thankfully by the time I got there he’d stopped screaming and raking himself.’
Susie added: ‘The hospital recommended we get him tested, but said it could have also been rival. I appreciate rashes can appear with a viral illness…
‘But his body went mad. The doctor who suggested the viral thing hadn’t seen how Greg had been on arrival. I can’t explain how much pain he was in. This is a bloke who shrugs off a grumbling appendix.’
The terrifying crisis comes just months after Greg, revealed he had postponed his wedding following the death of a close family.
He said the happy celebrations have had to be pushed back after the couple lost a close family member. Greg explained: ‘Today was meant to be our wedding day.
‘I love you so much’: The former MasterChef contestant has been engaged to Susie, 33, since May 2019
‘We get to plan it all again’: He explained that the happy celebrations have had to be pushed back after the couple lost a close family member
His fiance Susie saw the bright side and commented on the post: ‘Thank god I started opting for longer nails because these hand photos are giving me male tradesman had a manicure’
‘Due to the loss of someone so close and important we postponed the big day – In typical fashion the UK weather is going to be perfect we’re a bit miffed.
‘But we get to plan it all again and hopefully really put together exactly what we want. @susiejverrill I know today will be frustrating, but I love you so much and we’ll have an even better wedding when we finally manage to do it.’
Susie saw the bright side and commented on the post: ‘Thank god I started opting for longer nails because these hand photos are giving me male tradesman had a manicure.’
Greg is an Olympic champion who won long jump gold at London 2012, and also competed on Strictly Come Dancing in 2016.
He remains Britain’s record holder in both indoor and outdoor long jump, and won gold in the World Championships in 2015.
Rutherford retired from long jump in September 2018.
Family: The couple have three children, a daughter Daphne, two, and two sons; eight-year-old Milo, and five-year-old Rex
