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Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that he spent Christmas battling the coronavirus.
The former Top Gear host wrote in his Sunday Times column: “Four days before Christmas, I woke up at night to find that my sheets were soaked. And I had a constant dry cough.”
After her test came back positive, she said: “The doctor was very clear: I would feel bad for five to 14 days and then I would get better or I would have to go to the hospital.
“Because I am 60 and overweight, and because I smoked half a million cigarettes and had double pneumonia, I would probably die, alone, in a lonely plastic tent.”
Clarkson said he shut himself off, adding: “I went to bed with Don Winslow’s new book and a bag of kale to wait for the Grim Reaper to stick his head out the door.
“I’m not going to lie, it was pretty scary.
“With every illness that I have had, there has always been a feeling that medicine and time would eventually come to the rescue.
“But with COVID-19 you have to be there, alone, knowing that medicine is not on its way and that time is your worst enemy.”
Clarkson said that, at first, “it didn’t feel that bad,” but then her breathing “really started to get hard,” adding: “There was always the doctor’s warning ringing in my head about how it could suddenly get worse.
He said: “They keep telling us that we know a lot about COVID, but what I’ve learned in the last 10 days is that we don’t know.
“We don’t know how long we’re infectious. We don’t know how to deal with it. We don’t know what it does to us.
“We don’t know how long the antibodies last. We don’t know how easy it is to get it twice. And we certainly don’t know if any of the vaccines will work in the long term. I don’t even know if I’m better now.”
