Keiron Dyer suffered collapsed lung filming SAS: Who Dares Wins in injury hell
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Kieron Dyer suffered a collapsed lung while filming Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.
It took the former footballer two months to recover from his time on the show because he had so many injuries.
Dyer said: “There were quite a few things to overcome.
“I’d had hypothermia, and I had a fractured rib, a collapsed lung, and one of my testicles was as big as an apple. When I had my first hospital visit my lung wasn’t picked up. I was about to fly but I didn’t feel quite right and went to hospital again and they spotted it.
“It was lucky I didn’t get on the plane.”
The 42-year-old, now a football coach, needed painkillers to cope with his injuries.
He said: “I had to mask the pain and pump myself full of paracetamol.”
Dyer, who made more than 400 top-flight appearances for clubs including Ipswich, Newcastle, West Ham and QPR, also came face-to-face with past trauma.
In 2018 Kieron revealed he had been abused by his great-uncle Kenny, who has since died, when he was 12 years old.
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He only managed to open up to those closest to him in his early 30s. But Kieron’s appearance on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins helped him finally come to terms with his experience and realise he’s no longer a victim.
The former England midfielder says: “I was sexually abused as a child and with regards to that, I could never let people in 100 per cent.
“All the way until I started to get help aged 35, for 23 years my mind was conditioned by the sexual abuse.
“I’ve had a lot of help to overcome that. The advice Ant and Billy (Billingham) gave me in 10 minutes was probably more than I’ve had in two or three hours of paying for proper help.
“They saved my life. They gave me methods that will help me go on to bigger and better things.
“I don’t see myself as a victim any more. Because if I see myself as a victim, the guy who sexually abused me wins.”
Joining Kieron on Celebrity SAS are TV presenters Ulrika Jonsson, Saira Khan and Ore Oduba, reality favourites Kerry Katona,Vicky Pattison, Wes Nelson and Jake Quickenden, singer Alexandra Burke, Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell, Paralympian Aled Davies and BMX champ Shanaze Reade.
They spent eight days being put through a condensed version of the SAS selection course by the team of former special forces hard men.
Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins airs weekly at 9pm from Sunday on Channel 4.
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