Nadia Sawalha has spoken candidly about her ongoing battle with a ‘horrendous’ health battle.

The Loose Women star, 60, opened up on her latest YouTube vlog about the condition that she says ‘steals the joy of life.’

In the video, uploaded last week, Nadia revealed that her anxiety is ‘ruining’ her daily life, with fears about potential health issues striking her multiple times each day.

She said: ‘I’m always worrying that I’ve got some new and dreadful disease.

‘Something will pop up on Instagram or my 17 or 21-year-old will share something with me on TikTok or a magazine and I will just obsess.

‘It’s a bit like a hot and cold running buffet and I go from one dish to another and the dishes I choose to nibble on the most is dementia, petrifying, I probably today questioned, I’m really not exaggerating, probably 20 to 35 times today…

‘…Been to Loose Women, been on the train, been on the bus, talked to all sorts of different people, popped into a shop, there wasn’t anything I did today, any interaction or transaction where I didn’t go “that was a bit weird, is that dementia?”

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Nadia Sawalha has spoken candidly about her ongoing battle with a ‘horrendous’ health battle in a YouTube video posted last week

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The Loose Women star, 60, opened up about the condition that she says ‘steals the joy of life’

‘It’s horrendous.

‘That’s one of them. Another one breast cancer, another one bowel cancer, if you think about it those are all diseases or illnesses that there’s been fantastic work done on awareness.

‘Don’t get me wrong awareness is good, lives are saved because of awareness.

‘But I think I’m too aware because there are so often articles ‘don’t miss the early bloody signs’, everything seems an early sign.’

The star admitted she constantly fears falling ill with Weil’s disease, a rare bacterial infection linked to rats.

‘Sometimes I allow myself to hover over a really rare thing like Weil’s disease, is caused by rats in the water, I never swim in fresh water where there’s rats, but I can literally convince myself it is something I have,’ Nadia continued.

‘Skin cancer, constantly looking at moles, constantly convincing myself, oh my god, it’s so draining.’

Nadia confessed that dealing with it every day is ‘draining’ and leaves her feeling completely worn out.

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In the video, uploaded last week, Nadia revealed that her anxiety is ‘ruining’ her daily life, with fears about potential health issues striking her multiple times each day

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She said: ‘I’m always worrying that I’ve got some new and dreadful disease. Something will pop up on Instagram or my 17 or 21-year-old will share something with me on TikTok or a magazine and I will just obsess.

She said: ‘It steals the joy of life, I could be having a good time with family and then I’m like ‘I’m going to have that illness soon and I won’t be here’, and I can’t discuss it with my kids because they get mad, they’re terrified.’

Nadia added: ‘Another thing I get scared of is asbestos, I had a bit of it in the garden, Mark picked it up and put in the bin and I keep thinking he had a bit on him.’

It comes after Nadia broke her silence on the chaos at Loose Women as she choked back tears.

ITV confirmed dramatic changes to their daytime TV schedule earlier this year, with Lorraine Kelly’s show slashed from an hour to 30 minutes and, like Loose Women, will only air 30 weeks of the year.

And one of Loose Women’s most popular presenters has hit out as she described scenes of ‘shock and fear’ in the corridors at ITV after ‘hundreds’ of shock redundancies and pay cuts.

Nadia – who joined the Loose Women panel from its first series in 1999 – also admitted that even she doesn’t know where her future on the show lies as she explained that she is self-employed and ‘could be let go tomorrow’.

Speaking alongside her husband Mark Adderley on the couple’s YouTube channel she explained: ‘Do you know what, at the moment, all of us on screen are in work and are proud of what we do.

‘But behind the scenes there are people that are really suffering, and what you don’t realise is when you attack the show you attack them, because you never see all the army of people behind the scenes and how hard they work.’

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It comes after Nadia broke her silence on the chaos at Loose Women as she choked back tears

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ITV confirmed dramatic changes to their daytime TV schedule earlier this year, with Lorraine’s show slashed from an hour to 30 minutes and, like Loose Women, will only air 30 weeks of the year

Struggling to hold back her tears, Nadia added: ‘So to all my friends and colleagues behind the scenes who have just got a huge shock out of the blue, I’m so sorry.

‘Mark knows how upset I’ve been at home about it. I just can’t bear it. So just be f*****g kind to people.’

Earlier in the video Nadia explained: ‘What people don’t realise at Loose Women is that we’re self-employed, I am self-employed. Every contract is a new contract.’

Commenting on the unpredictability of television work she added: ‘I could be let go tomorrow, in five years, you don’t know because we’re not employees. So I can’t tell you anything accept I am on for my next contract.

‘What has been brutal over the past week and I am getting tearful about it, is that hundreds of people are going to be made redundant out of the blue.’

‘A lot of my friends and colleagues have been there for decades and I cannot tell you how upsetting it was to see people walking around numb with shock and fear about what they are going to do.

‘That has been so awful. It has been worse than whatever trolls have been saying about our show that we feel really protective of.’

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