Kerry Katona says mother rushed to hospital after broken back

kerry katona said her mother was rushed into hospital during “a really tough week” after doctors found a broken back and she was coming in and out of consciousness. The reality star said a doctor told her to come in straight away, then asked whether she wanted her mother resuscitated if the worst happened.

Kerry Katona and Paolo Margaglione

“It's been a really tough week,” Katona wrote in her new magazine column, adding, “My mum's been taken really poorly.” She said, “She's got a broken back,” and described the call that pulled her into the hospital situation without warning. For readers following her life off-screen, the point is not celebrity gossip but the practical strain of being the only support she says her mother has.

“Can you come in straight away because she's coming in and out of consciousness,” Katona said the doctor told her. She also said doctors asked whether she wanted to resuscitate her mother if the worst happened, a question that turns a family emergency into an immediate medical decision rather than a routine admission.

Only support at 45 years

Katona said her mum’s bones break really easily, which leaves the hospital stay wrapped around a longer health problem rather than one isolated injury. She said she is “all my mum has,” a line that explains why the moment carries more weight than a standard update from a public figure.

Paolo Margaglione has been by her side, and Katona said, “It'll be a year in two weeks time.” She added that she cannot believe she met him on a TV show, while also saying she is 45 years old and had once reached 43 or 44 without wanting a relationship. That shift gives the week another layer: a new relationship entering its first year just as the older family bond is tested in hospital.

ITV, colitis and the week ahead

Katona also said she has a project at the minute that she is working on with ITV, though her timing with the broadcaster did not align because she was going on tour with Katie. In the same column, she said she had Fascial Energetics done on her stomach with Sian at @youdeserveelysian because it keeps swelling with colitis, another sign that the week was defined by health concerns on more than one front.

For now, the clearest reading is simple: Katona is managing a hospital crisis around her mother while trying to keep work and a nearly one-year relationship moving at the same time. The immediate pressure sits with the family first, because the resuscitation conversation leaves no room for soft edges.