BONNIE Tyler reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest after being rushed to hospital in Portugal.
The Welsh star began to feel intense abdominal pain shortly after arriving in Portugal, where she has a second home, following inconclusive tests in London.
News of the singer’s health battle first emerged on Wednesday following reports she had undergone emergency bowel surgery for a perforated intestine last week.
Bonnie had been bedridden for two days at her Algarve home before her worried husband Robert Sullivan took her to the private hospital she was seen at prior to being transferred to Faro.
Local Portuguese media have now claimed Bonnie went into cardiac arrest when doctors tried to bring her out of an induced coma.
Cardiac arrest is a medical emergency where the heart suddenly and unexpectedly stops pumping blood, causing it to stop beating and disrupting oxygen flow to the body and brain.
The singer will now remain in a coma in an intensive care unit at Faro Hospital until medics manage to control the “serious infection” she is suffering caused by a perforated intestine, Correio da Manha reported.
Bonnie is also understood to have been treated with high doses of antibiotics after having her appendix removed.
She is believed to have been rushed to hospital on April 30.
Her long-term friend Liberto Mealha said overnight doctors are “positive” she can make a full recovery despite the ongoing uncertainty about how things will evolve.
Opening up on the Welsh star’s ongoing health battle, Mr Mealha said: “She started feeling unwell during a concert in London and went to a doctor for tests, but they didn’t detect anything there.
“She decided to travel to the Algarve, where she began to feel severe abdominal pain.
“Two days later, she went to a private hospital, which urgently transferred her to the hospital in Faro because her appendix had burst and she needed emergency surgery.”
Bonnie is best known for her No1 hit Total Eclipse Of The Heart, which became a worldwide sensation in 1983.
She had four other top ten hits including It’s A Heartache and Holding Out For A Hero.
Bonnie competed at the Eurovision Song Contest representing the UK in 2013, coming in 19th with her song Believe In Me.
The star was said to have been “stable” in an intermediate care unit at Faro Hospital before an apparent worsening of her health led to her being transferred to intensive care.
Sources said she had been maintaining her professional activity in the run-up to her hospitalisation despite complaining of persistent pain for several weeks.
A spokesman initially confirmed the news by saying: “We are very sorry to announce that Bonnie has been admitted to hospital in Faro, Portugal, where she has a home, for emergency intestinal surgery.
“The surgery went well and she is now recuperating.
“We know that all of her family, friends and fans will be concerned about this news and will be wishing her well for a full and swift recovery.”
Bonnie has been married to property developer Robert Sullivan since 1973 and now splits her time between southern Portugal and the UK.
