Westlife star Mark Feehily is suing a surgeon over weight-loss surgery in a private hospital he says caused recurring sepsis.
The 46-year-old stopped touring with the hit band two years ago amid a period of ill health, undergoing at least four major surgeries since 2020.
He spent months in an intensive care unit during the Covid-19 pandemic, before suffering from pneumonia, a chest infection and developing a large incisional hernia.
Mr Feehily claims in his court documents that the problems all stem from a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, a type of weight-loss surgery, he received in 2020 at Spire Portsmouth Hospital in Hampshire, The Times reports.
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