Linda Lusardi has revealed she had 'given up' after doctors said her chances of survival were 'slim at her age' during her 'touch and go' battle with Covid. 

The former page three model, 66, was hospitalised in March 2020 alongside her husband Sam Kane, 55, after contracting the virus which left her at 'death's door'.

Speaking about her near-fatal health battle, Linda revealed to Anna Richardson on her It Can't Just Be Me podcast she 'lost so much weight' and her 'limbs went blue'.

Linda told the podcast host: 'I was kind of told, I would not make it.

'I had given up to be honest because this young guy [doctor] had said to me, "I can't promise you anything at your age", she added.

'It was at the stage were there was no PPE. So they weren't coming in my room. My daughter was having to ring reception at the hospital to come to get them to bring me water. 

'I lost so much weight. My limbs, everything on me was were blue, were I wasn't getting enough oxygen.

'I just wanted it to stop. I had kind of given up.'

Linda explained when she was first admitted to hospital she was one of the first but by the time she was discharged from hospital it was 'like a war zone'.

She revealed no-one could come into the room to see her and the whole experience still has a traumatising impact on her husband to this day.

Elsewhere in the podcast, Linda said her husband contacted a woman who was spiritual in the hope she could help her recovery.

Unaware of what her husband had organised, Linda had fallen asleep on the evening when the woman, Jane, had planned to visit. 

She told Anna: 'He spoke to me about half past six. I could just about take the mask off to go to sleep. He said "ok you rest", he didn't tell me anything about it.

'That sleep I had then for about an hour and a half, I kept thinking of the kids and thought "I am going to be ok?"

'The lucid dreams I was having, and I woke with a smile on my face and I just thought "I am going to be ok, I am going to be ok, it is not going to get me". 

'I rang Sam and I took the mask quite off my face and I said "don't worry I am going to be ok". 

'I am going to make it through this. I just feel I am going to be alright. I had colour in my cheeks which I didn't have before. 

'But the funniest thing was Jane rang him up and said ''I have been in and her energy is very stagnant. I have got it moving, it is moving now, it is moving slowly, but you didn't tell me she was so feisty. I thought she was going to be like a flower, this little girl. But gosh she is spirited.'' And we have become close friends.'

Linda previously revealed during her battle with Covid she could 'feel her organs failing'. 

Speaking to talkRADIO in 2020, the star said she felt like she wanted to die due to the severity of her condition. 

She said: 'You get in a mindset where you almost want to go because it's so uncomfortable and painful and you feel so bad.  

'I said to the ambulance lady, if you don't take me in I'm going to die in this bed. I knew I would.  

'I think I probably had another 24 hours, 48 hours maybe, and I would have gone because I felt like my body was dying. 

'It's nothing you can explain to people because unless you've been there, you think, 'how could you know that', but you can almost feel your organs failing. 

'You just lie back and think "I have to give in, I give in, you're going to take me".'