'The Apprentice' star Lottie Lion was resuscitated and taken in for emergency heart surgery whilst on holiday in Sydney.
Lottie Lion will spend the next few months on medication and have another operation
The 24-year-old star - who shot to fame on series 15 of BBC One reality show in 2019 - is "unfit" to travel back to the UK after being hospitalised with an abnormally fast heartbeat, after her's spiked at 200 per minute.
Doctors diagnosed her with life-changing condition Wolff Parkinson-White - which her father also has, and, if left untreated, can cause heart attacks or strokes - after she collapsed on a walk, and because Lottie also has an abnormal heart rhythm, it's even more concerning, and as a result, she has to remain Down Under and she will have to take various medications for three months and require more surgery.
Lottie had been in Bali before flying to Sydney and she put the "heart palpitations" she was having down to anxiety.
She told The Sun: "I was on a walk and felt extremely dizzy and was having heart palpitations. The next thing I knew I woke up in an ambulance.
“The next thing I knew I woke up in an ambulance.”
She continued: “I was putting it down to anxiety, so I ignored it.
“This is going to be life-changing for me, as I usually live an extremely active lifestyle attending the gym every day.
"I am on strict instructions, having to take four different medications three times a day until I am able to have my second heart surgery."
Even after she has her second operation, Lottie will have to spend two months in recovery.
She said: “I’m also not considered ‘fit to fly’ so I am stranded in Australia.
“The next surgery involves trying to cauterise the abnormal circuits in my heart, but in a more invasive procedure with a two-month recovery period.”
Lottie is finding it tough as someone who is extremely active and looks after their health.
She added: “I took for granted how fit and healthy I was.
“I absolutely loved my active lifestyle and I’m devastated and very frustrated that I can’t at present continue that.”