Loose Women star Janet Street-Porter collapsed in a car park just weeks after undergoing knee surgery.

Janet Street-Porter was left screaming for help after collapsing following knee surgery (Image: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)

Janet Street-Porter was left screaming for help after collapsing in a car park. The Loose Women panellist, 78, returned to the ITV show on Tuesday, just weeks after undergoing knee surgery. During her first show back, Janet admitted she suffered a mishap after a trip to the hairdressers. Welcoming her co-star back, Charlene said: “Before we start anything else, give a huge round of applause and a huge welcome back to Janet! Honestly, this morning, when we saw your gorgeous face this morning, it was like, ‘Oh it’s so lovely to have Janet back!'”

The presenter added: “For those that don’t know, you were away because you had a knee replacement. How have you been getting on?” Janet explained: “Well, I’m getting on fine but I had a little bit of a setback yesterday! I had the operation three weeks ago today so I’ve done really well, I was walking within two hours of coming back to my hospital bed, I managed to stagger to the loo unaided. So I did really well!”

Despite having physiotherapy and hydrotherapy, Janet admitted being back home has been a bit of a “struggle”.

She went on: “I went to the hairdressers and when I came back yesterday, I slipped backwards by the lift in the carpark so I’m lying, a bit like a beached whale, going, ‘help me, help me!’

“Luckily two people arrived and when they went to get me up I went, ‘Don’t touch the knee!’ But I’m alright, I’m on the road to recovery!”

It comes after Janet’s co-star Kaye Adams said she’s had “the most wretched five weeks” after being accused of bullying junior staff members at BBC Scotland.

Speaking on her How To Be 60 podcast with co-host Scot Karen MacKenzie, she said: “I was doing Loose Women last week on Friday, and then I was doing it on Monday.

Kaye Adams was accused of bullying junior staff members (Image: Instagram)

“And so Charlie, my eldest daughter, came down for the weekend, and so we had a nice…. I mean, do you know I’m not gonna say much but it’s been the most wretched five weeks, you know it really has.

“You know I’ve done a lot of soul searching. It’s been miserable, it’s been absolutely horrible. But I’m at a stage now that I think ‘do you know what, I know I’m not the person that I was painted as. I’m not perfect, never said I was, but I’m not the person I was painted as.

“And I thought ‘I cannot allow this to drag me down and rinse me of all joy, which it certainly has done. And I can’t allow it to do that to my family.”

She added: “I’m really close with the girls, and I’ve felt terrible because I haven’t been as available to them as I normally would be because I’m too wrapped up in my own bloody issues. And so yeah Charlie came down for the weekend and we just walked and walked and walked and walked.”