White Island volcano survivor shares details about her recovery and most painful part of ordeal

White Island volcano survivor Stephanie Browitt has shared harrowing details about her road to recovery.  Ms Browitt, 23, suffered third degree burns to 70 per cent of her body, while her sister and father were killed in the December 2019 eruption off the east coast of New Zealand.  On Sunday the Victorian woman, from Craigieburn in … Read more

Dr Alex George reveals he almost DIED from septic shock as he details ‘frightening’ ordeal

Dr Alex George has revealed he almost DIED from septic shock in 2017.  The Love Island star detailed the ‘frightening’ ordeal in his latest YouTube video, and admitted he ‘owes his life’ to the NHS staff at St Thomas’ Hospital. Dr Alex branded the terrifying experience – which took months to recover from – ‘a life … Read more

Woman who was snatched as a baby realises TV drama is about her own kidnap ordeal

Sitting on the sofa to watch TV one night in her New Zealand home, Abbie Sundgren was transfixed by a drama about the kidnap of a newborn baby. Within seconds of the programme starting, the 25-year-old realised that the plot was the story of the first 17 days of her own life. Not surprisingly, she binge-watched … Read more

Duffy releases ‘deeply personal’ new song River In The Sky after harrowing rape and kidnap ordeal

It troubles me that this story contains sorrow, when so many need the opposite of that at this time. I can only hope that my words serve as a momentary distraction or maybe even some comfort that one can come out of darkness. We are in troubling times, where we’ve not seen such national and … Read more

You Are What You Wear’s Darren Kennedy details his anorexia ordeal

‘People assume that men are fine’: You Are What You Wear’s Darren Kennedy details his anorexia ordeal as he came to terms with his sexuality in his teens By Charlotte Dean For Mailonline Published: 08:40 BST, 16 June 2020 | Updated: 10:26 BST, 16 June 2020 Darren Kennedy has opened up about his two-year battle … Read more

British businessman tells of his ordeal in televised Chinese show trial presented by Meghan’s friend

Ashen-faced, manacled and locked inside a steel cage, British fraud investigator Peter Humphrey confesses to his ‘crimes’. From a forbidding Shanghai jail, dressed in an orange prison tunic and, he says, drugged with sedatives, he grovels to the dozen television cameras trained on him.  ‘We obtained personal information by illegal means,’ he mumbles, his voice wavering. … Read more

Sub-postmaster tells how her world fall apart in an ordeal that has haunted her for a decade

‘I wish with all my heart I’d never become a sub-postmaster,’ says Sarah, 56, who took over the Starbeck Avenue branch in the Newcastle upon Tyne district of Sandyford in November 2005 Posing proudly outside her sub-post office, Sarah Burgess-Boyde looked the very picture of success. Trusted, respectable and capable, the popular sub-postmaster appeared a shining … Read more

How missing hikers survived a 19 day ordeal lost in dense bush in New Zealand

Hikers, 23, who spent 19 DAYS lost in the bush reveal how they survived – and why finding a footprint saved their lives Two campers survived 18 days missing in the remote New Zealand wilderness  Dion Reynolds and Jessica O’Connor went camping in Kahurangi National Park  The seasoned wilderness hikers never returned home on May … Read more

Rhian Sugden turns up the heat in a cleavage baring snap after revealing ‘terrifying’ ordeal

Rhian Sugden turns up the heat in a cleavage baring snap after revealing ‘terrifying’ ordeal where a gang of masked men tried to break into her home By Ellie May Donohoe For Mailonline Published: 17:00 BST, 24 May 2020 | Updated: 18:57 BST, 24 May 2020 She revealed last week she has been left terrified … Read more

Coronavirus survivor shares his ordeal at St Thomas’ Hospital where Boris Johnson is being treated

An NHS worker left gasping for breath and in excruciating pain by coronavirus has told of her ordeal in a warning to those ignoring lockdown rules. Karen McCabe, from Edinburgh, said she first came down with symptoms while self-isolating with her children, and initially tried to battle the illness with paracetamol. But within days she … Read more