Star of A Place in the Sun Laura Hamilton is currently battling the rare condition of immune thrombocytopenia, a disorder that often leads to bruising and bleeding.
Bleeding starts to occur from low levels of platelets, which are the cells that help blood clot.
Laura Hamilton opens up about her rare health condition
During an interview with the Daily Star in 2022, Laura said she has flare-ups “depending on what’s going on with my life and stress often brings it out”.
“It was really mad a year ago I was filming A Place In The Sun with a lovely couple in France – Mark and Janine – and I just stood there and I had an insect bite on my leg and I started scratching it,” she continued.
“I was like: ‘Oh, I shouldn’t have done that because I’m gonna have bruises on my leg from ITP.'”
It was at that moment that Laura learned that her co-star Mark’s sister had died from the same condition.
“He told me that really sadly his sister had died from ITP and he said it was really good how I was trying to raise awareness of it,”
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