Beverley Callard has revealed she became unwell while filming Fair City earlier this week, with an ambulance called to the set.
The former Coronation Street actress, who joined the RTÉ soap as Lily Patterson earlier this year, said she had been preparing to film a scene when she suddenly lost consciousness.
Speaking in a video shared on Instagram, Callard said: “I’ve been at work this week, filming the most amazing scenes, really good, great scripts.
“Working with people who are so good, but good fun as well. It was all going swimmingly and then today, I’ve no idea what happened to me but I was all ready to start a new scene.
“We just sat there, getting ready, about to run lines and I sort of… the only way to explain it is I lost consciousness for a few minutes, maybe 10 minutes, which was very odd.”
Callard said an ambulance was called as part of protocol on set, but she did not go to hospital after recovering.
“An ambulance came, I desperately didn’t want to go to hospital, I recovered and then felt fine again,” she said.
Callard said she had felt “boiling hot” and was advised by paramedics to go home and rest for the weekend.
She added that she now feels “perfectly normal”, although her blood pressure had been “through the roof”.
The actress said she has “not been right” since undergoing radiotherapy following her breast cancer diagnosis and still experiences bouts of nausea.
“I’m at the hospital next week so I’ll probably know more,” she said.
“I’m awaiting the results of these other tests, some of these biopsies they’ve taken from my stomach.”
In the caption accompanying the video, Callard wrote: “That was an eventful day at work! Not really something I can explain but I certainly wasn’t expecting a visit from paramedics today.
“I’m feeling fine now… just another sign that something isn’t quite right.”
Callard completed radiotherapy treatment in July.
She is best known for playing Liz McDonald in Coronation Street on and off between 1989 and 2020, appearing in more than 2,000 episodes.