Jeremy Clarkson is on the mend following a bout of pneumonia that saw him hospitalised in Spain, his daughter has said.
The car enthusiast and former Top Gear presenter fell ill while on a family holiday in Mallorca earlier this month.
Appearing on ITV’s Lorraine, his daughter Emily said: “We didn’t realise it was pneumonia.
“We were there on a family holiday and I flew home on the Friday morning, by Friday afternoon he’d been admitted to hospital, so I went back to go and be on nursing duty.
“But he’s on the mend now.”
Mr Clarkson later revealed in a Sunday Times column that he was told by doctors he could have died and joked that his boredom in the hospital was “so bad I thought often about killing myself”.
Twenty-three year old Emily has just released her first book titled Can I Speak To Someone In Charge?
The book is a series of open letters addressing various subjects like body image and more, and is inspired by her blog, Pretty Normal Me.
She said: “I didn’t set out to do this but it has felt very natural, making it letters, because I was kind of screaming for something like this when I was a teenager, so I thought if no-one else is going to do it, I volunteer as tribute.”
Initially her blog was written anonymously and she explained she never highlighted her surname because it was “irrelevant”.
“It wasn’t totally anonymous in that I didn’t wear a mask to do anything but I never advertised my name and I never advertised dad because it was so irrelevant,” she said, adding: “He does cars and I literally have never talked about a car in my life, so I think there was no point of for me.
“I thought that it would just attract a bit of trolling really because everything does. I thought (I would) just do it myself and then obviously I can’t hide the surname and I’m not ashamed you know or whatever so now I am who I am and just doing it as me really.”
Mr Clarkson’s illness comes just a few weeks after his Grand Tour co-host Richard Hammond was airlifted to hospital when his car crashed while filming the Amazon series.
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