Samantha Armytage left her fans heartbroken as she revealed her reasons for her absence on air.
She explained to Sunrise viewers and co-host David Koch that both of her parents are currently in the hospital, with her mother Libby being “gravely ill” with heart failure.
Her father Mac also suffered a stroke recently.
“Mum has an auto-immune disease, she has had it for about 15 years, and it’s attacking her heart now,” Armytage explained live on air.
“Then on the way out the door to visit mum at the hospital, dad collapsed… he’s had a stroke and is in rehab now.”
“Thank God he was in Sydney at my place so we got him straight in the ambulance.”
Armytage explained her father “has got a bit of paralysis on his left side” but “is a tough old bugger, so he’s getting there.”
“So I’ve got two of them in hospital, but at least they’re in the same hospital now, so it’s a bit more manageable.”
“So that’s where I have been… not on holidays!” she joked.
She also shared the news on her Instagram, urging her fans to hug their parents while they still could.
“To anyone out there with loved ones in the hospital right now or anyone out there near your parents right now, give them a hug for me,” she wrote.
“Now, can 2020 just p**s off already xx”.
