Ex The Block contestant Jess Eva has opened up about her daughter’s terrifying brush with death.
The Triple M radio host took two days off this week, and on her return told listeners the reason for her absence was because her daughter had almost drowned.
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The presenter, who rose to fame alongside her husband Norm on The Block last year revealed her family’s trauma.
“I thought that I had lost my daughter,” an emotional Jess said on Triple M on Thursday.
“I got a phone call on Monday and the children were holidaying on the coast with Norm,” she explained.
“The first thing he says to me is, ‘Sh*t! Sh*t!’ I said, ‘What’s the matter?’ He said, ‘I’m taking Matilda to emergency’. I’m like, ‘What do you mean? What’s happened?’
“He had gone to a resort pool with his friend and he was talking to his mate and he took his eye off her (Matilda) just for two seconds, it can happen to anybody.”
Jess and Norm are parents to 2-year-old Matilda, and 5-year-old Fred.
She explained that Norm and his mate rushed off to find Matilda, and his friend spotted the two-year-old underwater in the pool.
“At this point she’d been under for about 20 seconds,” Jess said.
“His mate dived in, got her. She was still conscious. She was vomiting, she had foam coming out of her mouth.”
The couple were afraid of “secondary drowning” and took Matilda to hospital to get checked over.
“Norm thought she might have just been napping and they were told, ‘Take her to emergency straight away!’ because secondary drowning, where’s there’s water on the lungs, is one of the biggest killers when it comes to children. You can still drown three days after you’ve been under the water.”
Jess became emotional as she recalled the horrific phone call from Norm.
“Just to think of her underwater and that she was alone, it’s just something you don’t want to hear,” Jess said.
While Matilda stayed in hospital for observation she appears to be OK after the incident.
Jess revealed that Norm was almost inconsolable after the mishap, but she stressed that it could have happened to anyone.
“He feels so terrible,” she said. “He just did not forgive himself.”
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