KEN RUSSELL, the film-maker who directed Women in Love, is recovering after becoming another celebrity victim of the superbug MRSA.
Russell, 77, was quarantined after doctors discovered the bacterium when he was treated in hospital for back pain. His wife said yesterday that she feared for his life as he slipped in and out of consciousness. Russell, who took nine drugs for pain, including valium and morphine, said that he had been terrified. “The worst thing was that I didn’t know what was wrong with me,” he said.
Three years ago, Claire Rayner, a television agony aunt, contracted MRSA. Leslie Ash, the actress from Men Behaving Badly, caught MSSA, a similar virus, in April.