Abbey Clancy has revealed she was rushed to hospital and put on a drip after breaking a nail during a family holiday. The model, 40, flew to Dubai to
Abbey Clancy has revealed she was rushed to hospital and put on a drip after breaking a nail during a family holiday.
The model, 40, flew to Dubai to celebrate New Year with her husband Peter Crouch and their four children.
But the holiday took a nasty turn when a freak accident saw Abbey break her nail and end up in hospital.
Speaking on her and Peter’s The Therapy Crouch podcast on Tuesday, Abbey revealed her acrylic nail bent back and snapped off her entire nail after she gave her friend a hug.
She said the wound started pouring with blood and she had searing nerve pain along her arm, shoulder and neck, with the agony of the horror injury leaving her in tears all night.
‘I had a serious injury,’ Abbey said. ‘I ended up in hospital. I broke my nail. It sounds insane and I was so embarrassed going to hospital.
‘We’d been out for a lovely meal. Tom and Kaz came back to our room, had a quick glass of wine, kids played. Then as she was going to bed at 11pm, I gave her a hug, and my acrylic nail bent right back.
‘My whole nail came off. It was pouring with blood. Then it stopped and this nerve throbbed, which was going down my whole arm, down my shoulder, up my neck.’
She continued: ‘The doctor came to the room at 3am, put me on a drip for painkillers. When we were calling down to hotel reception, I was like “Can we have some paracetamol?” They said: “We can’t give you paracetamol, we can’t give you ibuprofen.” So we had to wait for a doctor — that was two hours. Then the doctor came, and said, “I’m going to put you on a drip.” That was another two hours.
Abbey added: ‘They injected all my hand. They had to numb it – ugh and that relief. Because I’d been up from 11pm to 7am crying, hand under hot water, cold water, arm up, arm down. “The doctor was like, “No form of painkiller will stop this pain — you need nerve blocker.” So they removed my nail.’
This comes after her husband threw her a surprise birthday party in Paris for reaching the 40 milestone.
