Overview
- Kerry Katona says she continues to notice changes in how she looks and talks, though she reports she is now “loads better.”
- Earlier this month, hospital staff initially treated her as a stroke patient and transferred her by blue‑lit ambulance from St Thomas’ to King’s College Hospital.
- Scans later ruled out an ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, and she says doctors identified a stress‑linked neurological problem that disrupted signals to her face.
- Clinicians advised speech therapy and targeted facial exercises to help restore movement and speech, and she has described getting shooting head pains during recovery.
- Katona says the scare heightened her severe health anxiety and that she panicked and texted her children to say she loved them during the episode.