A former star of a British daytime TV talk show revealed earlier this year that she'd been hospitalized for several days with complications from a serious illness that caused her to collapse in her own home.

Scottish author and journalist Andrea McLean, formerly of the "Loose Women" panel discussion show, has now provided an update on her lengthy recovery from pneumonia and other health issues like sepsis, according to National World.

The star revealed that, after first getting sick in December, she is only just now able to attend public events with other celebrities like she used to before her illness and subsequent hospitalization left her largely bedridden.

Finally "feeling really good now"

McLean, 55, spoke this week with the U.K.'s Mirror and announced that she'd finally felt well enough after months of being sick to attend a charity ball for stroke victims in London with her husband, Nick.

"I’m feeling really good now, this is actually my first real night out since it happened," McLean said as she credited certain lifestyle changes as the key to her feeling better, and added, "It has been quite a long recovery process, but I’ve slowed down my pace of life and I’m feeling really good."

That is good news for her fans who were likely worried earlier this month when she revealed on social media that she'd fallen again and sustained minor injuries because of her weakened state and realized she was "not quite 'better' yet."

Collapse and hospitalization revealed pneumonia, kidney injury, and sepsis

It was in February that McLean published a lengthy Substack post about her hospitalization for several days in January after she was rushed to an emergency room following a collapse in her bathroom at home that she attributed to a nasty bout of the flu she'd first contracted in December and had been unable to fully recover from.

"Like lots of people, I sucked it up, thinking it would pass in a week or so," she wrote of her initial experience with the flu. "After seven days of sweating and shivering, with a raging temperature and chills, and pain in my chest and back, my wee turned brown. I collapsed in the bathroom, and like the adverts you see on telly with the elderly, I lay there for an hour before my husband found me."

After the ambulance ride, which she did not enjoy, McLean said she'd endured "Questions, scans, lots of needles, and possibly the most painful insertion of a catheter ever experienced. Then my X-ray and CT scans came back. I had severe pneumonia, Acute Kidney Injury, and sepsis. Things happened quickly; drips, super-strong antibiotics via IV and orally, and I was transferred to the Emergency Assessment Ward."

The two nights spent in that ward were no fun, nor were the several subsequent painful days and nights she spent in a bed in the Respiratory Ward with several other elderly women, some of whom suffered from dementia, the horrors of which she recounted at length and with great detail.

The road to recovery after a terrible hospital experience

After several days, McLean wrote, she was eventually allowed to go home at night to sleep but had to come back during the day to continue receiving treatment, and she had nothing but praise for the nurses and doctors who'd cared for her, as well as her husband who'd placed his own life on hold to help care for her and their family while she was sick.

"It’s been five weeks since that night, and my life is still not 'back to normal,' as I thought it would," she wrote at the time. "Nick’s life stopped for the first few weeks of the new year too, as he drove me into hospital every day, and then every other day, until I was officially discharged. He sat outside the unit where I was being tested, scanned, attached to drips and waiting for discussions with a doctor -- for hours and hours at a time. He drove me home, made everyone dinner, listened to them all talk about their day, then put me to bed. And then did it all again the next day. And the next."

"Life stopped for a while, but that’s all. I’m not better yet, but I will be, and I can’t make that happen any faster than the time it will take," McLean concluded. "I’m guessing that’s the lesson in this whole shitty experience, if there is a lesson. That things will happen that are out of your control, and will take as long as they need to take."

She added, "Maybe there isn’t a 'learning,' and this is just a thing that happened, that has also happened to thousands of other people, and I’ll suck it up like we do and carry on. One day, this will just be a funny story to tell."