Former The Only Way Is Essex star Mark Wright has recalled how he gave CPR to a dying man while on holiday in 2019.
Almost breaking down in tears while on This Morning, the 35-year-old reality TV star opened up candidly about giving live-saving CPR while abroad – and the importance of everybody knowing how to deliver it.
While holidaying in Tenerife almost four years ago, Mark was approached by a lady who told him that her husband had collapsed on the floor.
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Because Mark's best pal Charlie Edinburgh, the son of Justin Edinburgh who sadly lost his life from a cardiac arrest in 2019, started a charity helping people to learn CPR, Mark knew what to do.
Speaking about the charity that his friend set up, Mark said: "He asked me to be part of a video where I learnt CPR and convince others to do the same.
"And that day that I landed [in Tenerife] I received the video that I had shot a week before and literally from going to the airport and to the hotel, I had watched the video, checked into the hotel with my wife and this poor man's wife came up in tears and panicking saying her husband's collapsed and nobody in the hotel responded…"
Speaking to Mark, Phillip said: "This was a big hotel, no one was trained in CPR and there were no defibrillators?"
"No, I thought I was in a place where you’d expect people to be trained," Mark replied.
He added: "But it wasn’t whether they were trained or not, it was the fact no one reacted, no one was replying to this poor woman’s cries."
He then recalled how he said to Michelle Keegan, his wife, that he would have to step in where it was "fresh in his mind".
"It’s taken me 35 years to know how to do CPR, and how it’s not in the school curriculum, I do not know," he went on.
Becoming noticeably tearful, Mark said: "I did what I could… he was there for a while before I got there."
Touching on how he couldn't save the man's life, Mark explained how he was told by the man's family that he had given them the chance to say goodbye.
He said: "Yes, I kept him – he certainly wasn’t fully alive – but he was coming back with certain breaths and it allowed him to be put on a life support machine so he wasn’t pronounced dead whilst he was under my hands, but I did all I could and that’s all you can do in that situation."
Later on in the show Mark and Dr Zoe Williams showed viewers how to perform life-saving CPR.
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