Melanie Sykes gives heartbreaking health update as she reveals she’s ‘in so much pain’ & has been ill all year
TELLY presenter Melanie Sykes has said she is now “two thirds bald” after losing her hair due to illness.
Mel, 55, added in an Instagram video she was “in so much pain” and had been unwell all year.
She said: “I’ve got an autoimmune condition, I am losing my hair, I keep having crazy inflammation all over and I am working on healing.
“In the last three months, I’ve done a meditation teacher training course.
“I was too ill to finish it like. The last two days of it I couldn’t do.
“It’s meditation teacher training, I don’t necessarily want to teach, but I can do…
“Mostly I’ve been living a very, very very spiritual existence.”
Mel and chef Gino D’Acampo co-hosted ITV show Let’s Do Lunch with Gino and Mel from 2011 to 2014.
Last April, she revealed she had been diagnosed with alopecia and also had a heart condition — and linked her suffering to allegations of inappropriate and intimidating behaviour against Gino, which he “firmly denied”.
Speaking on her YouTube channel, Mel said: “I went into the New Year with so much energy.
“I’ve slowed things down because I got a heart problem, which I developed during the whole Gino D’Acampo bull**** that happened in the news.
“Suddenly, the stress levels in my life shot up because I left that industry years ago but it won’t leave me alone.”
“It’s all been triggered – and everybody’s agreed with this – by my PTSD from the industry.”