Sam Thompson fights tears as he recalls sister's traumatic birth that almost killed her

Sam Thompson had to fight the tears as sister Louise candidly opened up on her and health issues since giving birth to her son, Leo. The former Made In Chelsea star welcomed her baby to the in November 2021, but almost died after facing serious complications.

Louise's difficult saw her in hospital for a week after giving birth. However, after she was discharged, she had a massive obstetric haemorrhage two days later.

Sam was in the studio working on the showbiz segment when Louise spoke to hosts and about the scare. And he revealed how his sister's trauma have made the siblings even closer.

As he joined the trio on the sofa, Sam said: “Louise is the bravest person I know… I’ve never met anyone braver. I sort of welled up and cried a little bit when Louise had these little things dangling down from the ceiling in her house and little extracts from the book and she was like, ‘Can you read the passage about you’... I read it and she was basically like, ‘He’s become my big brother.’”

Sam continued: “It’s a thing when someone you love so much is in so much crisis and who you become in that moment.”

And he emotionally revealed how he felt when he first heard about his sister’s emergency surgery: "My mum called me and said, ‘You need to get to the hospital now’..."

He confessed he then was just sat in a room with Louise's partner Ryan waiting to hear any news. Speaking about how he supported Ryan, Sam said: "When it gets that bad, you really sort of steer into another phase of your being, I've never really had that before and I hope to never have it again.”

He then opened up to say: "We’re the luckiest family in the world just to have Louise still here."

Louise had revealed how her world was "literally turned upside down" in that instance. However, she admitted she felt anxious prior to her son's birth and had an "intuition" that childbirth "wasn’t going to be a walk in the park for me".

She said: "I kept trying to advocate for myself to speak up to say, ‘I really want to have a planned C-section’. I just felt like I wasn’t listened to and I had to jump through a lot of hoops and there wasn’t a great level of continuity of care… I was just met with a lot of resistance and then I kind of succumbed to my fate."

Louise explained she went through three and a half hours of surgery whilst awake and said, “I just wished I had been put to sleep… Sadly I’ve had to have subsequent emergency surgeries.”

Louise also revealed how she initially struggled to bond with her son. She continued: "I couldn’t connect with my son and I just didn’t recognise my life and writing [the book] for me was such a cathartic experience, it was the only way I could communicate with people.

"It was awful that he [Leo] was really traumatising me… I just have memories of just holding him looking up as he was crying, I would just look up at the sky and honestly just pray and I’d go, ‘Take all of this pain away, this mental and physical torture.’”

Louise revealed she named named her book Lucky as she feels "really privileged to come out the other side".

airs weekdays from 10am on ITV, ITVX, STV and STV Player

Like this story? For more of the latest showbiz news and gossip, follow Mirror Celebs on , , , , , and .

READ MORE: