Nadia Sawalha of Loose Women said that she was sent to the hospital immediately after filming for the ITV daytime show.
The 59-year-old was ‘panicked’ after the ‘dramatic’ encounter, she revealed on Friday’s broadcast.
The TV actress had been bragging about her excellent hearing until co-panelist Kaye Adams revealed a health concern that occurred seconds before a live performance last month.
Nadia began: ‘Last Thursday, I went to get my ears tested, and wait for this guys, this is the first time ever I’ve been told I’ve got exceptional hearing.’
‘She’s just ear shaming me!’ Kaye quipped.
Nadia went on to explain that after ‘showing off’ about her ‘exceptional hearing’, she went home and ‘suddenly, I got this weird spidery thing go across my eye.’
She continued: ‘Through the evening it got worse, and it got smeary, and I ended up reading covering up one eye, thought it was a bit weird and it would go in a minute. But it didn’t.’
The next day, Nadia went to the ITV studios for the morning meeting before Loose Women, and rang the optician, where she was told to ‘leave now and go straight to A&E’.
‘It was really dramatic, I was really panic-stricken,’ she said.
In the midst of the stress, Nadia’s co-star Gloria Hunniford intervened, calling an eye-surgeon friend and assuring her that the play would go on.
But she was urged to go immediately to A&E, where it was discovered that Nadia had ‘an ageing eye’.‘The long and the short of it is, I’ve got an ageing eye! With everything else, the knees, the bladder, the hair, now it’s my eye!
‘Well they’re both ageing, the jelly is coming off the backs, I’ve got a microscopic haemorrhage, I know it’s microscopic but I don’t want a haemorrhage, anywhere!’
She added: ‘It is worrying but it will be fine.’
Nadia’s health concern occurred after Kaye, 61, reported a ‘traumatic’ health crisis only minutes before her live presentation.
The Strictly star was ‘extremely scared’ when she couldn’t hear anything out of her right ear minutes before the programme began on ITV.
‘On Friday when I was doing Loose Women minutes before we went on air my right ear just went dead,’ Kaye began.
‘I put my earpiece in and there was no sound, and I couldn’t hear a thing. I was absolutely terrified,’ she explained, adding that she somehow got through the programme and panicked afterwards.
Kaye went to A&E following her symptoms, and while she was well, she was concerned about a malignancy.
She said: ‘I am embarrassed to say this because my head was going to some terrible, terrible tumour, you know.
‘I’m very melodramatic, and Paula pulled out the biggest bit of wax you have ever seen.’
Loose Women airs weekdays from 12.30pm on ITV1.
