I’m A Celebrity star Myles Stephenson has revealed his young daughter was rushed to hospital (Picture: ITV/REX)
I’m A Celebrity star Myles Stephenson has revealed his young daughter Sahara was rushed to hospital after she ‘stopped breathing’ and ‘turned blue’.
The singer, who rose to fame winning The X Factor in 2017 as part of band Rak-Su, took to Instagram to share an update with his followers.
He posted a picture of his two-year-old daughter in A&E, describing the incident as ‘the scariest thing [he’d] ever seen’.
The 33-year-old explained: ‘This little princess had a seizure yesterday evening and stopped breathing and turnt [sic] blue! Single handedly the scariest thing I’ve ever seen!
‘Her temperature spiked causing a (febrile) seizure. For any parents with young children please look up Febrile Seizures and research.
‘It will not only help your child but also you if it should ever happen. Especially during flu season.’
His daughter Sahara suffered a seizure (Picture: Instagram)
Myles took to Instagram to share the update with his followers (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
According to the NHS, a febrile seizure can sometimes occur when a child has a high temperature and can last for two to three minutes.
It’s unlikely to harm a child or cause long-term effects, but may cause them to become unconscious, become stiff and twitch, shake or have jerking movements.
Myles shares Sahara and son Shiloh with partner Keli Hall, who said on her Instagram: ‘Very scary day with this one yesterday, don’t want to let her go today.’
In 2023, Myles tragically opened up about ‘dealing with demons’ after learning that their son Shiloh, who he welcomed with Keli in 2021, had suffered a stroke.
Myles won The X Factor with Rak-Su in 2017 (Picture: Tom Nicholson/REX/Shutterstock)
He shares daughter Sahara and son Shiloh with partner Keli (Picture: Instagram)
He had earlier revealed that the then-two-year-old had suffered a stroke sometime before, during, or shortly after birth, and wanted to raise awareness of hemiplegic cerebral palsy.
During an appearance on Steph’s Packed Lunch, he said: ‘We didn’t notice anything after the birth or during the pregnancy and it was up to about six months when we both of our parents, who are nurses, said “Shiloh is clenching his fists”.
‘As first time parents we didn’t expect anything, because all I’ve known is that babies aren’t in control of their limbs, and we decided to go to a GP and get a little check up and see what was going on and then we got referred.
‘And many, many months later we got the diagnosis of hemiplegic cerebral palsy. We got told he’d had a stroke and that there is brain damage on the left side of his brain and you get shown the pictures, it hit home because you can see the damage.
Myles’ son suffered a stroke sometime before, during, or shortly after birth (Picture: Instagram)
Myles was on I’m A Celebrity in 2019 (Picture: ITV/REX/Shutterstock)
‘For a long time since I found out, and since we’ve been going through this process, I’ve been dealing with demons just because that’s your son, that’s your child.
‘As much as I would love to take it all away and it be on me I can’t do anything about it. So there was a lot of processing and a lot of re-finding ourselves and kind of re-evaluating.’
Myles and his bandmates Ashley Fongho, Jamaal Shurland and former Rak-Su star Mustafa Rahimtulla, rose to fame on The X Factor in 2017, winning the fourteenth series.
He went on to appear on I’m A Celebrity in 2019, when he came in seventh place, alongside the likes of James Haskell and Jacqueline Jossa.
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