Towie’s Yazmin Oukhellou updates fans after being hospitalised amid PTSD battle following boyfriend’s horror death
THE Only Way Is Essex star Yazmin Oukhellou has updated her fans on being hospitalised amid her PTSD battle.
The reality favourite was left with the condition after surviving a horror car crash that killed her boyfriend.
Yazmin, 28, took to her Instagram stories to show herself hooked up to an oxygen mask as she sat in bed.
Pulling her long dark hair back, the star wore her pyjamas as she was treated by doctors on Tuesday.
She updated her fans in a video that she was struggling “being away from home” and made herself unwell.
“Trust this to happen to me, I get so panicky being away from my mum and my family when I go away, and being ill on my own,” she told her followers.
“It’s just, it gives me such bad PTSD. But I think it’s just my body’s way of just telling me to take some time.
“I try to push on so much in life, when I go through something terrible, anyone who knows me knows I don’t dwell on it.
“People look at me and think, ‘F***ing hell she’s got over it quick and she’s doing alright’, but it’s the way I try to cope.
“I try to just get on and push on with life and I’ve ended up making myself really unwell.
“My immune system is low and I’ve got low blood pressure, and I’m just waiting to see what I’ve got.”
It comes after Yazmin sparked concern over her health after she shared a photo from a hospital bed.
The former TOWIE star captured the moment an IV needle was inserted into her hand in a cryptic post.
Yazmin quit The Only Way is Essex just months after escaping a horror car crash which killed her ex-boyfriend Jake McLean.
Jake’s blue Mercedes E class saloon plunged from a road into a ravine, killing Jake, and leaving her with serious injuries.
Yazmin revealed how she had to break her trapped arm to escape the wreckage, opening an artery.
Thankfully a dog walker found her and rushed down to the car, but it was too late and Yazmin couldn’t feel Jake’s pulse.
After making the decision to leave TOWIE, an insider told us: “Yaz has decided to step away from the next series of Towie and focus on recovering from the trauma of what she has been through over the last year.
“She needed a break after everything to process what’s happened, so she has decided to leave the show and will not be in the next series.
“The door is always open for her to return, and Towie bosses were keen not to lose her but totally respected her wishes and want her to put herself first.
“They would love to have her back in the future, so watch this space.”
