NADINE Coyle has revealed that she suffered severe carbon monoxide poisoning and was weeks from death.
Now the 30-year-old is urging everyone to install carbon monoxide detectors in their homes.
The former Derry-born Girls Aloud star said that she fell ill while staying in her Los Angeles home because of a faulty boiler.
Speaking on television today, the mum-of-one said: “I was renting a house in LA.
“You don’t really notice it, you’re like ‘I’m really tired, is it with all the flying around, is it jet lag, am I getting sick, is it a cold, have we got a bug, why are we so tired all the time?.’
“And then you would forget simple things, we couldn’t remember the word for table, like, ‘What is that? Put it on the…’, we couldn’t remember what is was.
“And it was the chest pains, I felt like I couldn’t breathe.”
She added: “So I went to the doctors and I thought there was something seriously wrong, and they checked for everything and they said you’re fine, and I said this still doesn’t explain why I feel so bad.
“Then when the blood tests came back they said it was exposure to high levels of gas, but still he hadn’t said it was carbon monoxide.”
The singer admits that she first thought that it was due to the smog of London but later found out it was because of a leak in her house.
“’I was like what is he talking about, I thought is it London, is it smog, I was like, god, what was I doing, and then when it was the actual guy in LA had seen that it was the boiler that was faulty, there was a crack in it,” she said.
Urging viewers to install carbon monoxide alarms in their homes, she added: “’It’s very, very scary and it’s really serious.”