Bucks Fizz legend Jay Aston revealed her daughter’s health, She told her 18 year old daughter is seriously ill in hospital with bacterial meningitis.

Aston’s daughter Josie was rushed to hospital last month, she almost died from the horrible disease.

Her condition was so much critical that at one point, she ended up in an induced coma as her organs started to shut down.

Jay told, “It’s been absolutely devastating. We were told it was 50/50 whether she would pull through. We still don’t know when she’ll be coming home.

“I sat by her bedside night after night willing her to make it. I couldn’t believe this was her fate, because she’s such a lovely person. She’s outgoing, kind, good-willed and full of life. It just felt so cruel.”

Star Jay added that she has been asking God to help save her beloved child.

She said, “I’ve been doing a lot of praying. She’s my world – we’re ridiculously close. I just couldn’t imagine being without her.”

Star found her daughter shaking and she noticed a rash on her arm a month ago, this was the  first of several warning signs that something was wrong.

She recalled: “She’d been lying out in the sun so I thought it was maybe heatstroke. A couple of days before that she’d complained that her joints were aching, which I’d put down to growing pains.”

She said when a headache and soaring temperature followed, Jay dialed 999.

She said, “That was 6.45 pm, but the ambulance didn’t come. Her temperature reached almost 40. I started to get really worried. In the middle of the night,

she said her daughter said to her,  ‘Mum, I’m not right.’ I saw red dots on her arm.”

After going to hospital, Josie was admitted to the ward and within an hour her whole body was covered in a rash.

Jay further added, “Doctors said all her organs were failing and it was 50/50 whether she would live,”

“I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. She was only 18 and just a few days earlier she’d been 100% fit and healthy.”

With one in ten cases of bacterial meningitis, a disease where bacteria attacks the brain and spinal cord, being fatal, doctors put Josie in an induced coma for five days.

“I was willing her to pull through,”

“I held her hand but one had lines in it and on the other the rash was weeping and blistered. It was horrible.”

When she was brought out of the coma, at first there was no improvement. Jay said, “She didn’t come round for two days. They were the two worst days of my life. There was no response. I knew it could go either way.

“But I couldn’t let myself think that I might lose her.”

Thankfully, Josie turned a corner and came round, starting to speak a day later.

However, she is still not out of the woods as her kidneys are not fully working and may be permanently scarred.

Her daughter remains in hospital, where she is having dialysis, and at one point Jay was scared she may have to have a limb amputated after one toe went black.

Jay said: “It’s quite common to lose limbs when you have meningitis so badly. We thought they might have to amputate it, but luckily, it’s coming back.

“Josie has been incredibly brave, but her spirits are low. She’s not going to be well for months, possibly the rest of the year.”