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Benidorm star Tim Healy has credited his son’s music for helping him recover from a major illness in 2016.
The actor was taken ill while filming the hit TV series on location last May. He was later transferred to Manchester for treatment. Tim’s son, Matt, fronts The 1975.
Speaking to the Mirror, Healy said: “There were complications at the hospital and I ended up in intensive care. I was in a coma for days, so obviously I don’t remember any of it.”
Healey was fulsome in his praise for his son’s music and he credits The 1975 is aiding his recovery.
He said: “[My fiancée] said that while I was in a coma she kept playing my son’s music to me, she had his album on a loop. After a few days I started smiling and then I came round – so my son’s music brought me back to the land of the living.”
Healy has subsequently made a number of lifestyle changes after the health scare and has given up smoking and drinking.
“I’m feeling so much better, I’m on the mend now,” he said. “It’s been a long few months and we’ve really been through the wringer as a family, but we’ve come out the other side and I’m starting to work again.
“The doctors say it’s going to take me at least a year to get myself back full strength. I just want to get back to work, get back to Benidorm.”
As reported elsewhere on Gigwise, The 1975 are nominated for two categories in this year’s Brit Awards: Best British Group where they face competition from Bastille, Biffy Clyro, Radiohead and Little Mix, and also Best British Album for the mouthful that is I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It
