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PAUL Young has told of his horror accident on holiday that landed him in intensive care.

The 69-year-old singer suffered leg fractures after plunging down a flight of stairs at the five-star De Sol Hotel and Spa reception.

Paul Young, pop star, seated.

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Paul Young has opened up about his terrifying accident on holidayCredit: Getty Images – Getty

The 80s pop icon told the Daily Mirror: “As soon as I put my foot on the first step, my leg slipped out from underneath me. I fell and my leg cracked as soon as I hit the step.

“Once I’d gone down, I couldn’t stop. There was no handrail, so nothing to hold on to. I just thought, ‘I’ve lost control’.

I fell down to three or four more steps, fracturing my leg again and again. It was a multi-fracture. When I came to a stop, I looked down and my leg was in a slightly weird position, underneath my bottom.

I thought ‘I don’t like that. My leg shouldn’t be like that’, so I tried to straighten it up and that’s when the pain started’’.

Paul needed three emergency blood transfusions as he was treated for a series of fractures to his left thigh bone.

His terrified wife Lorna, 53, raised the alarm – and Paul was rushed to Santorini General Hospital in Karterados.

The incident happened in September just 24 hours into a dream holiday on the Greek island of Santorini.

Music video for Come Back and Stay by Paul Young from 1983

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