Mary Berry, 87, says croquet saved her life after doctor’s warning ‘Gosh, she was right’
Mary Berry has told how playing croquet saved her life following a warning from her doctor. In a new interview, The Great British Bake Off star, 87, told how her GP warned her she could be dead in four years if she didn’t start exercising after she broke her hip last year.
It comes after the BBC cook broke her hip last year which resulted in emergency surgery and a 10 day hospital stay.
But now, Mary has revealed how she has a new lease of life after taking up the lawn sport.
The star said: “My GP told me, ‘You’ve two options. You could sit in a chair and do no exercise and quite probably be dead in four years, or you can set to, walk (uphill too!) and do everything you can, and it’ll take 18 months for a full recovery.’
“And gosh, she was right.
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“I’ve exercised and had lots of physio and it’s not quite normal yet, but it will be,” Mary told the Daily Mail’s Weekend magazine.
The home cook told how she had taken up croquet alongside her husband Paul Hunnings, 90, branding it a “great joy” to play the sport together.
It comes after the former Great British Baker Off judge revealed that waited for over three hours for an ambulance to arrive after she suffered a nasty fall, which saw her break her hip.
The celebrity cook said that she “went down really hard” while picking flowers in her garden, which led to her having surgery and a 10-day hospital stay following the accident in August.
But after he didn’t answer, she phoned her son-in-law Dan who came straight over.
“He saw me and said, ‘I’ll get an ambulance’. I said, ‘Oh, no, I’m fine’, but he overruled me,” Mary explained.
They were told that Mary would face a lengthy wait for medical attention, as it was a Sunday afternoon.
Staying where she was, Mary was joined by her two dogs Freddie and Darcy who kept her company with Dan for the long wait.
The Bake Off star revealed that it was a “shock” for her husband when the ambulance turned up and took her to the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
Once there, they confirmed that the TV star had broken her hip, as one of her feet was “turning out”.
The star underwent surgery the next day, but didn’t have the joint replaced.
Following the surgery in August, Mary said that she used only paracetamol for the pain.
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