Katie Piper was "really struggling" with severe eye pain while filming 'Jailhouse Mums'.
Katie Piper had a 'nightmare'
The 39-year-old star - who is fronting the new two-part documentary about incarcerated mothers in facilities in the US - had surgery earlier this year to fix a defect in her left eye, and she admitted it was a "nightmare" during the shoot because she didn't have access to eye drops.
She told the MailOnline: "It's not great. It's ongoing my eye for me. I had this infection since February which has never really stabilised.
"It was a nightmare throughout the filming of the prison show. I was really struggling and it was really hard to get eye drops into the prisons.
"It's just one of those things that has never been a stable injury for me."
The medical procedure is the latest in a raft of complications she has suffered after being the vicim of an acid attack in 2008, which left her blind in one eye.
She added: "I think if you're going to have such a life-changing injury you're going to know and accept those things don't just heal and go away.
"It is the same for every burn survivor I have met at that level of severity of injury."
The 'Loose Women' presenter - who is married to carpenter Richard Sutton and has daughters Belle, nine, and five-year-old Penelope with him - recently admitted she found it “difficult” to leave her own children at home in the UK, but knew it was nothing compared to what her interviewees go through as mothers in prison.
She told HELLO! magazine: “It was really difficult because you’d spend all day talking about children being separated from their parents, knowing you’re not seeing yours, and I remember feeling a bit guilty.
“I was going to see my children in a week or two, but some of these women are looking at 30 years until they see theirs.”
'Katie Piper’s Jailhouse Mums' begins at 10pm on Wednesday (21.06.23) on W.
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