This Morning star Jordon Cox has opened up about his agonising health battle, revealing he was left 'unable to walk' and in 'crippling pain'. 

The presenter, dubbed the Coupon King on the ITV daytime series, regularly appears on the show to showcase the best deals - but on Friday, sat down with hosts Alison Hammond and Dermot O'Leary to discuss being diagnosed with Crohn's Disease.

Jordon, 28, was diagnosed with the condition at the age of 17, and had to be hospitalised while he underwent treatment, including having a temporary stoma bag, a ileostomy, fitted. 

He recounted how he'd struggled with bad stomach cramps throughout his teenage years, but the disease took hold after a serious bout of food poisoning. 

After 'never getting better' from the food poisoning, Jordon battled with doctors to get a colonoscopy where the Crohn's was discovered. 

The disease is a type of chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation in the digestive tract - and there is currently no cure. 

He told Dermot, 52, and Alison, 50: 'I still get a little bit choked up looking at pictures because when you're in it, you don't realise how bad you are.

'When you're diagnosed with any disease, it's quite a lonely thing. Most of the time, you don't know what it is and don't know anyone else with it. 

'So, you're given this diagnosis bombshell, and then you're like, "What now? Where do we go from here?"'

Explaining how his health declined in 2018, Jordon recalled: 'Things got incredibly worse and it got to a point where my bowel just wasn't absorbing anything.

'I had quite bad diarrhoea, I had a lot of blood in my stool. Every time I ate, all the nutrients wouldn't be absorbed because my bowel wasn't working. 

'Throughout that time, I lost so much weight. I was down to six stone ten in weight. I was skin and bone at that point. I don't want to say it, but I was probably a few months away from my body giving up completely.  

'When I got admitted to hospital, [the doctors] were like, "You need surgery. You need a bit of your bowel removed that's really bad". 

'But I was too thin, I didn't have enough energy in my body. To hear that wasn't great. They were like, "You need a bit more to you, otherwise you're not going to survive a pretty major surgery". 

'They hooked me up to something called TPN, which is total parenteral nutrition. It went through a wire in my arm or neck, where 24 hours a day, I was just being fed through that.'

Jordon later contracted sepsis and had to return to hospital, this time for the surgery he needed in order to help improve his condition. 

Doctors removed 30cm of diseased bowel from Jordan, and fitted him with an ileostomy bag to give his body a rest - a move Jordon revealed 'gave him his life back'. 

'When I was at my worst, I could barely walk from my bedroom to the bathroom,' he added. I'd be out of breath. I was 20 years old at the time, and that's no way for a 20-year-old to live.

'After I had that surgery, it was back to normal. Since then, I've been living a more normal life,' Jordon concluded, revealing he's since had his ileostomy bag removed. 

It comes after Jordon opened up with his secret battle as he made a rare podcast appearance outside of ITV daytime series This Morning. 

Appearing on the Crohn's & Colitis UK Podcast, Jordan shared his own experience of living with the condition – which has seen him undergo two operations.

He said: 'I got admitted into hospital. I was six stone ten in weight. I was about six foot three, six foot four. I was literally skin and bone.

'There are pictures of me in hospital and I still look back on it now, thinking like 'what on Earth?'

'It got to a point and it was my favourite day when I was in there, they said "really good news, we're going to allow you to have liquids but only short amounts, only very small amounts".

'What they did is get a sponge on a stick and they dipped it in a tea and if you brush this on your tongue you'll be fine. It was the first taste of flavour I had in such a long time.'

Crohn's disease is a long-term condition that causes inflammation of the lining of the digestive system.

Inflammation most commonly occurs in the last section of the small or large intestine but it can affect any part of the digestive system.

Jordan previously shared he was hospitalised back in 2018, but still managed to make £1,000 by buying, reselling, and comping from his bed.

At the time, he told The Sun: 'Two weeks in, I wasn't coping well and I was feeling really down. I was just sitting there watching TV and doing nothing.

'I needed to make this time count and I decided to turn it around and do something worthwhile instead.'

'The goal was to make the best out of a bad situation and I think I have.'

This Morning airs weekdays on ITV1 and ITVX at 10am.