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"The pains were awful": Downton Abbey star Dame Maggie Smith rushed to hospital with heart scare
3 Nov 2012 22:00
Harper Collins
DOWNTON Abbey favourite Dame Maggie Smith will have to consider her future after being rushed to hospital with crippling chest pains.
Dame Maggie – Violet Crawley in the hit ITV1 period drama – was taken to a specialist cardiac unit after complaining of severe pains, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.
The 77-year-old star was admitted to the private Wellington Hospital in London on Friday morning and underwent a series of emergency tests. She was discharged later on Friday after her condition was monitored and stabilised by medics.
The health scare will add to fears that she will not return for the show’s fourth series.
In her role as the grand Dowager Countess of Grantham, the award-winning actress has played a major part in the huge success of Downton Abbey, which has nine million viewers in the UK and is watched around the world.
It has a huge following in the US. But after a glittering 60-year career, she will have to consider advice from doctors before deciding whether she should sign up to the next series following the climax of the third season tonight.
A source close to the star said: “It was a big scare for Maggie and she was really worried because she was in a lot of pain.
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