Strictly pro Amy Dowden reveals she almost DIED after chemo caused terrifying collapse amid breast cancer battle

AMY Dowden has revealed she almost DIED after her chemo caused a terrifying collapse.

The Strictly Come Dancing professional, 33, revealed in May that she'd been diagnosed with breast cancer.

It's meant she's been forced to pull out of this year's series of the hit BBC One competition.

Then, after undergoing a mastectomy a month later, she told how doctors had found cancer elsewhere in her body.

Brave Amy has since started chemotherapy treatment and recently made the heart-wrenching decision to shave her hair.

However, in a shocking health update, Amy has revealed complications after a round of chemo nearly cost her her life.

Speaking to The Mirror, she explained: "After both my first cycles I developed the life-threatening side-effects that can come with chemo, so I had it all in the first month."

She continued:  “I had a temperature and didn’t realise the severity of having a temperature.

"I stood up, collapsed, Mum rang the emergency number and they said ‘phone an ambulance immediately’."

Amy, who had developed an infection, went into septic shock - with her blood pressure so low her organs could've started to fail.

Explaining what happened, she recalled: “I had severely low blood pressure, a low heart rate, I wasn’t passing urine for 14 hours, my infection markers were at dangerous levels. I had three different types of antibiotics and I finally responded to the third type.

“We met the paramedics a week later and they said if I had gone to bed that night I might not have woken up the next morning."

Despite being assured by her doctor that she had just been unlucky and picked up an infection prior to chemo, Amy had another hospital dash.

After her second round of chemo she developed clots which she said left her 'frightened'.

“My arm swelled up and went purple and I was really short of breath. So I was rushed back in. It was frightening, too. I’m on blood thinners now for six months.”

Amy joined Strictly Come Dancing in 2017 and quickly became a fan-favourite.

Last year the dancer was paired with EastEnders star James Bye.