Darius Campbell has told how he almost died in Glasgow after drinking dirty water from the Thames for a charity advert.
The former Pop Idol star sipped the water from a sewage outlet as he filmed a promo clip for his charity Fresh2O.
The video was to promote a bottle filter that could make the water safe- however, his bottle didn’t have a filter attached.
In an interview with the Sunday Post Darius says he fell into a coma and almost died.
He said: "I drank the water for the video and raised the funds but when I went to Glasgow to see my mum for her birthday I collapsed.
"It turned out I had a cerebral oedema where your brain swells bigger than your skull.
"My dad saved my life. He got me to hospital, they diagnosed it quickly. I had bacterial meningitis."
The incident, which happened in 2015, knocked Darius off his feet.
He added: "I was bed-bound for three months and picked up a new respect for what my parents went through."
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