S Club star Jo O’Meara has revealed she’s been rushed to hospital as she took to social media to share a health update after suffering over her back
A huge chart-topping singer has been rushed to the hospital. S Club singer Jo O’Meara took to social media to share a major health update with her online followers.
Posing in a hospital bed wearing a medical gown, the 46-year-old looked downcast as she explained she’d been suffering difficulties with her back again. Captioning her post, the singer penned: “Back in hospital! The back is back! I didn’t expect to be in here today
Just hours before this, Jo revealed that she was celebrating the 17th birthday of her son, Lenny, as she took to her Instagram to reveal she was “proud” of her “darling” child. This, however, isn’t the first time Jo has been left in pain over her back. In 2022, she explained that she had been rushed to hospital in the “worst pain”.
Jo O’Meara revealed she’d been rushed to hospital
The Don’t Stop Movin’ singer underwent emergency surgery, which she later confirmed didn’t work. At the time, Jo shared a snap of herself in her local Accident & Emergency after she was hooked up to an IV drip to deliver medication. She said: “When am I gonna get a break?? I really thought I was on the road to recovery.
“4am this morning the pain was the worst it’s been yet! So here we are again! I am devastated.” Due to her declining health, the singer was forced to cancel a string of concerts and underwent an operation to remove a disc from her back, causing her to spend eight days as a patient at Queen’s hospital in Romford. Sadly, the surgery didn’t work and Jo required another operation.
She later explained: “As you can see I’m back in bed. That is because the back is playing games again. The pain has been absolutely horrendous and today I got some MRI scan results back that wasn’t the result I wanted. I’ve actually got to go back into hospital for further surgery on my back which I’m absolutely devastated about to be honest.”
→ Swipe to see more articles
Speaking about her health in 2023 during an appearance on Loose Women, Jo said: “I’m a lot better than what I was. Yeah, it’s been a really rough few months, to be honest. It’s been very painful. I’ve had good days and bad days with it.
Despite her pain, Jo has continued to work with her S Club bandmates (
Image:
Getty Images for Bauer Media)
“I think sometimes you just got to soldier through it and then other times you just want to know how long the pain is going to last.” She’s since had four operations on her back.
The singer has been suffering from chronic back pain for decades and revealed she had issues with her back when she was in her early 20s. After going to an osteopath, she was told she had a slipped disc.
“The sciatica was horrendous. The pain was the worst,” Jo explained. Following the operations, Jo was left to take a different number of pain medications, but none – including morphine – seemed to take the edge off her unbearable pain.
When she first felt the agonising pain in 2022, she thought she was having a convulsion as her whole body went into shock. The Reach singer said she immediately rang for an ambulance and told The Sun: “I was sobbing and shaking. They came running in but I couldn’t move. Every time I tried to get off the bed I was screaming and sobbing in pain.”
Surgery left Jo facing months of physio before she could think about getting back on the stage, and she will have damage to her right leg permanently. Doctors had warned her that she may never return to her old ways. She explained how she knew something was severely wrong, as she’s often struggled with back pain.
“I knew the feeling but it was ten times worse than what I’ve had before,” she explained. “Back surgery is so complex and every time they go in, they’re just weakening my back. I was absolutely petrified.”
