Four months after suffering from the symptoms, a blood test revealed she had severe carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Speaking on Good Morning Britain today, the 30-year-old claimed she forgot simple words for things like “table” while living in the risky property.
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On the physical effects she experienced, Coyle added: “It was the chest pains – I felt like I couldn’t breathe”.
Blood tests revealed she’d been exposed to high levels of gas, but mum-of-one Nadine assumed it was through spending too much time in London.
“It started with headaches and then I had a constant feeling of nausea”, she said.
The singer said she had been affected by the deaths of Christi Shepherd, seven, and her brother Bobby, six, killed by a faulty boiler while on a family holiday to Corfu in 2006.
She said the family probably only escaped death because her home was well ventilated and because a gas engineer visited her home on another job and noticed a crack on the boiler by chance. Nadine hopes to bring awareness to the dangers through her experience, encouraging others to fit carbon monoxide alarms in their homes. I thought, ‘Is it London?
Dressed in a simple, yet, relatively chic green knitted top and jeans, Nadine went on to reveal doctors initially thought she was fine when the serious symptoms did not ease. “Is it smog?”‘, I was like, “God, what was I doing?”, and then it was the guy in LA that had seen that it was the boiler that was faulty, there was a crack in it. ‘It was so lucky, ‘ added Nadine. There are people whose machines are giving off really high levels of carbon monoxide and they don’t make it through the night.
“[We were told] immediately, everybody needs to get out, everybody needs to be out the house”.
Nadine is supporting the Carbon Monoxide: Be Alarmed! campaign.
Coyle went on to stress the necessity of carbon monoxide alarms, saying: “These are crucially important – I have three of them now placed in different places”.
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