Benefits Street star Stephen Beer has blamed the NHS for letting him down and allowing him to ‘slowly die’.
Tipping the scales at 35 stone, an emotional Stephen broke down in tears as he insisted that he wasn’t ‘lazy’.
He believes that it was the NHS not forthcoming with surgery that has meant his battle with his weight has taken an almost fatal turn.
Speaking out on This Morning, he told Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby that the health service was allowing him to slowly die as it is now too late to reverse the damage done.
Stephen welled up with tears when he confirmed to Phil and Holly that he had already had three strokes.
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He said: “The trouble is when I look into the mirror I slowly see myself going…
“I’ve been told that if I lose the weight I will get surgery.
“But the NHS is just letting me down, I did that and surgery never came my way, it’s too late.”
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