Celebrity SAS' Fatima Whitbread broke three ribs during task but hid 'unbearable pain'
03.10.2022 - 12:25
/ msn.com
Fatima Whitbread gritted her teeth and soldiered on in hardcore reality show Celebrity SAS after secretly breaking three ribs. The 61-year-old Olympian sustained her injuries while jumping out of a helicopter for a challenge in which TOWIE’s Pete Wicks, 33, withdrew from the show after knocking himself unconscious and cracking his ribs. But Fatima – the oldest contestant ever – continued without highlighting her own “unbearable” suffering.
She reveals: “When we jumped out the helicopter, Pete Wicks hurt his ribs, didn’t he? I cracked three ribs too, but I decided to go on. “I never talked about it in the process because I didn’t want to be pulled out. ”But despite battling through the challenges, Fatima was in agony.
“It was awful,” she says. “I can’t tell you the unbearable pain I was going through. “Even picking up my backpack was really hard.
I knew I was being a pain to some of them asking them to help me on with my backpack where normally I’d just yank it up with one arm. “But I couldn’t even do that thanks to three cracked ribs. As the days went by, the pain got worse.
I couldn’t lay down properly or sit up properly. “And it was just… moving about trying to get dressed, awful. Absolutely awful.
” Javelin legend Fatima even kept her injuries secret when dancer AJ Pritchard knelt on her chest during the Murderball challenge, which aired tonight. She says: “I never considered quitting. I didn’t want to.
I wanted to go through the whole process. “It was one night we were laying down and Jade said to me, ‘you all right?’ I said, ‘I can’t lay down and I can’t get up, it’s so painful’. “It was gripping me.
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