BBC's Only Fools and Horses legend Sir David Jason has revealed that he struggled with Covid earlier this year. The 82-year-old has opened up about being struck down with the illness over the summer. Discussing how he was affected, Sir David said: "I got it seriously bad. Because all the muscles weren't working, I collapsed and I fell against the radiator... I was so weak, I couldn't get up."
The comedy hero also described how, the simplest of tasks became tricky when he had Covid. "I crawled to the bed. The muscles weren't working and I used the bed to try and stand up so that I could go to where I wanted to get, and also get back into bed, and I couldn't. I tried for about a quarter of an hour, trying all sorts of things to stand up so I could walk about," he added.
The 'Del Boy' actor continued: "My arms wouldn't work and my legs wouldn't work, so being a very creative and inventive person, I thought, how will I get from here to the door? You know when you see a walrus if you watch David Attenborough, and they walk on land, they crawl on land? That's what I did. But in order to do that, I had to use my head. So now I'm lying face down on the ground, and in order to get to the door - and the arms really weren't working and the legs weren't working - I was using my head to drag me to the door."
