Jeremy Clarkson has admitted he feared he would ‘die alone’, as he battled Covid-19 over Christmas.
The 60-year-old has opened up about his experience with the virus in a column for the Sunday Times newspaper.
Jeremy explained that he tested positive for Covid-19 after he fell ill four days before Christmas.
The Grand Tour star wrote: “The doctor was very clear; I’d feel under the weather for between five and 14 days and then I’d either get better or I’d have to go to hospital.”
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“Where, because I am 60 and fat, and because I’ve smoked half a million cigarettes and had double pneumonia, I’d probably die, on my own, in a lonely plastic tent.”
Following public health advice, Jeremy went into isolation, and said he took himself to bed “with the new Don Winslow book and a bag of kale” and waited “for the Grim Reaper to pop his head round the door.”
The TV presenter confessed: “I’m not going to lie — it was quite scary!”
“With every illness I’ve had, there has always been a sense that medicine and time would eventually ride to the rescue…”
“But with COVID-19 you have to lie there, on your own, knowing that medicine is not on its way and that time is your worst enemy.”
Jeremy added: “I don’t even know if I’m better now. Seriously, I have absolutely no idea.”
