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    Home - Celebrities - Alan Carr fears he’s losing his eyesight as he undergoes terrifying procedure
    Celebrities Updated:January 27, 2025

    Alan Carr fears he’s losing his eyesight as he undergoes terrifying procedure

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    Alan Carr fears he’s losing his eyesight as he undergoes terrifying procedure

    Alan Carr fears he’s losing his eyesight as he undergoes terrifying procedure

    Alan Carr has revealed details of a health scare which left him worried he might be losing his eyesight, suffering through a terrifying treatment that involved having a ‘spike’ driven into his eyeball.

    The comedian and TV personality, 48, has astigmatism – a condition that means that the eyeball isn’t round as it should be. Instead, it is shaped more like a rugby ball, causing blurred vision and sight loss.

    Alan’s scare came as he began experiencing a sense of pressure behind his eyes, leading to a fear that his eyesight may be worsening.

    And, as the Changing Ends star and creator visited Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, he underwent treatment to relieve some of that pressure.

    This involved what he described as having a ‘spike’ driven into his anesthetised eyeball.

    Speaking to comedian Grace Campbell, 31, on the latest episode of his podcast, Alan revealed all the gory details of the traumatic procedure.

    ‘I hate the glaucoma thing when they squirt the air in your eyes,’ he said on Life’s A Beach.

    He continued: ‘I had something wrong with my eyes in the cornea. I was so worried.’

    Alan went on to say he practically had to be restrained as the doctor injected air into his eye to relieve some pressure.

    ‘He had to basically choke me because this air going into my eye was too much,’ Alan said.

    But worse was to come. ‘At Moorfields, they anaesthetised my eyeball, and then the spike came in onto the lens to see if it worked,’ he explained.

    ‘They said, “Just relax, Alan, and just concentrate on the spike going into your eye.” I’m like, excuse me? What? Oh good, the spike is coming closer. Relax!

    ‘It was so surreal. Losing my sight is my worst thing, and I can feel it getting worse.’

    ‘My eyeballs need draining—they’ve got too much pressure,’ he added.

    Late last year, Sir Elton John also revealed that he had been struggling with a severe eye infection that left him unable to see out of one eye.

    ‘Over the summer, I’ve been dealing with a severe eye infection that has unfortunately left me with only limited vision in one eye,’ the pop icon, 77, wrote on Instagram.

    He went on to say that, although he was on the mend, it had been a slow process, and it would be sometime before sight returned to his eye.

    More recently, Dame Judi Dench shared an update on her macular degeneration – a condition that means she can no longer leave her home alone.

    ‘Somebody will always be with me,’ she said. ‘I have to now because I can’t see, and I will walk into something or fall over,’ the Skyfall star, 90, said in a podcast interview with Trinny Woodall.

    She revealed how one saving grace is that she no longer has to keep her condition a secret by pretending she can see.

    ‘And fortunately, I don’t have to now because I pretend to have no eyesight.’
    Alan Carr fears he’s losing his eyesight as he undergoes terrifying procedure

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