Jeremy Clarkson rushed to hospital 9 hours after branding NHS ‘creaking old monster’
The Clarkson's Farm star insisted the NHS was his 'only option'.
Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he was hospitalised just hours after publishing a column criticising the NHS.
The Clarkson’s Farm star hit out at the National Health Service over the years, and most recently suggested it was ‘just not financially viable anymore’ and describing the institution as a ‘creaking old monster’.
Nine hours after publishing that column, the former Top Gear presenter was rushed to hospital after falling ill.
The 65-year-old star did not reveal why he needed treatment (‘that’s none of your business’, he added), but the irony of the timing was not last on him as he noted the timeline.
‘Nine hours after that piece appeared on the nation’s kitchen tables, I needed to go to hospital in something of a hurry,’ he wrote in the Sunday Times on October 12.
‘I was poorly and I needed urgent hospital treatment and the NHS was my only option.’
The Clarkson’s Farm star published a column trashing the NHS just hours earlier (Picture: Amazon/Everett/Shutterstock) He admitted he ‘couldn’t find anything to moan about’ (Picture: Amazon/Everett/Shutterstock)He described his treatment as ‘Defcon 1 painful’, joking that staff needed to ‘chisel me off the ceiling with a spatula afterwards’.
Clarkson’s health scare required an overnight stay, while he admitted he was nervous having been so critical.
‘Mercifully, though, there was no indication they either knew, or cared, who I was when I arrived,’ he added.
The Grand Tour star ‘genuinely couldn’t find anything to moan about’ when it came to his time in hospital, as he praised the ‘kind’ staff described the place itself as ‘spotless’.
