Jamie Lynn Spears leaves I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! on medical grounds
Jamie Lynn Spears has left the jungle.
Jamie Lynn Spears has left on medical grounds.
The singer and actress, who is the younger sister of pop superstar Britney Spears, is the second celebrity to leave the show early for medical reasons after restaurant critic Grace Dent departed earlier this week.
In a statement on Wednesday, a spokesperson for the ITV show said: “Jamie Lynn Spears has left I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! on medical grounds. She’s been a fantastic campmate who has triumphed at trials and bonded well with her fellow celebrities.”
Spears was announced as part of this year's line-up earlier this month.
In Monday’s episode of the reality show, the actress and singer recalled an incident when her eldest daughter Maddie got caught under a quad bike when she was a child.
Spears said the experience led her to become Catholic as she feels it was “a miracle” that Maddie survived.
She said: “I almost lost my oldest daughter… she drowned and we couldn’t save her. We tried really hard.
“She was trapped under a little side-by-side that we ride around our pond. This is in 2017 so she was eight or nine, something like that.” Spears recalled how she, her husband and her parents-in-law rushed to save Maddie before emergency teams arrived.
“I could feel her arm, and I’m jerking it, I couldn’t get her up because it’s a pretty heavy machine,” she said.
“In that moment you think, you know logically she’s been under water too long… nobody can live if they’ve been under water this long. You logically are thinking these things.
“Then you hear the sirens coming. Thank god my mother-in-law, first thing she did was call 911.
"How could I ever complain about anything ever again? I was given the biggest gift you could ever be given. (Maddie) was caught in the safety netting. So when they got there, she was not alive. They took her from me and they intubated her.”
Spears said she overheard her mother-in-law tell her mother on the phone that they had “lost Maddie” before a firefighter came over to reveal emergency workers had found a pulse.
She said her daughter was airlifted to hospital and put on life support, but when the last rites were read, Spears said Maddie’s body “physically sat up”.
“Her spirit responded to it for whatever reason… She got better and better every day and walked out of the hospital and this has no repercussions,” she added.
- I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! continues on Wednesday at 9pm.
