When Katie Hopkins hits the headlines, it’s normally because she’s written something deliberately horrible/ contentious and everyone’s vow not to humour her has been broken within 10 rage-filled minutes.
But this time, it’s because something has actually happened to her. Huh.
Katie, who writes a column for Mail Online, was rushed to hospital this weekend after dislocating her shoulder carrying a suitcase onto the platform at Paddington.
But for everyone thinking, ‘Better pack fewer pairs of shoes for my trip to Majorca next week’ don’t worry, it’s not that likely to happen to the rest of us, but is related to previous health problems of Katie’s.
Her husband Mark Cross explained: “This is a legacy from her years with epilepsy.
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“The staff at St Mary’s were brilliant and managed to get her patched up in a couple of hours.
“I’m pleased to say Katie, although in a great deal of pain and doped-up, still made her flight.”
She still made her plane from Heathrow to LA despite being delayed by hours? Now we love an over-enthusiastic early trip to the airport as much as the next Brit, but how much time did she leave?
Katie, 42, who was flying to LA to be a guest speaker at the Politicon conference in Pasadena last year underwent brain surgery in an attempt to cure her epilepsy.
She deemed the operation a massive success.
“I am out and about,” she wrote on Twitter in March 2016.
“Flying solo. And I am no longer an epileptic. Come on then life. Let’s do this thing.”
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Prior to the operation, Katie explained that epilepsy caused her to have “three or four fits a night.”
“I have to sleep with my arm in a sling I carry in my bag,” she told The Sun. “I dislocate my arms at least once a week. When that happens an ambulance comes.”
“If the brain surgery works they’ll be able to put my arms permanently back in their sockets and my life would be perfect.
“They were talking about which parts of the head will need to be shaved, but I don’t give a s*** about my hair. I want to be there for the kids, I want to write and to have my arms and legs.”