Jess Wright feared the very worst when her young son turned blue and stopped breathing after being thrown from a bouncy castle. Four-year-old Presley, who the former TOWIE star shares with husband William Lee-Kemp, was rushed to hospital last week when the lad was 'catapulted' into the air and landed face down on a hard wooden floor. The family were attending a birthday party of one of his friends, and panic soon set in.
Presley was airlifted to hospital and is now thankfully on the mend. He has a heart condition called Bicuspid Aortic Valve, which means his heart's aortic valve has only two leaflets instead of three, and he will require open-heart surgery at least twice in his life. This means his parents are always on edge.
Speaking to Ben Shephard and Cat Deeley on This Morning, Jess detailed her terror. 'We were coming towards the end of the party and I told him to go and play and somehow he got pinged off the bouncy castle,' she said. 'He then flew into the air and landed about three metres away on the floor. We heard this noise and everyone in the hall gasped. I glanced over and it was him. It was horrendous, you think the worst. The impact shocked him so much he stopped breathing. I screamed 'he's not breathing, he's not breathing' - we got him outside and he started to go blue. I grabbed him and he slowly came to.'
She added: 'We got him in the ambulance. They did all the observations. He was really in pain and couldn't stop crying, and so they thought that something happened to potentially his spine or broken ribs or something like that. We are always panicking with him. It's almost the point where my family are saying 'Jess, sit down, chill, he is fine' but you just do - you want to protect them and wrap them in a cotton wall. He's slightly traumatised by it, but he is fine now. It was such a shame what happened as the parents went to such an effort.'
Jess previously explained how Presley was diagnosed with a congenital heart disease called Bicuspid Aortic Valve. It was something he was born with and requires him to have open heart surgery. In the aftermath she thanked all those who helped last Saturday. 'Will and I are so very panicky around Presley's safety especially because of his heart condition, so the fact this happened to him, we were beside ourselves,' she wrote online. 'It was a freak accident that couldn't have been avoided but I will say I'll be more careful in future if the bouncy castle is on a wooden floor opposed to mats or I guess maybe grass. Thank you to all the families at the party who helped us at the time and were there to support us. We had a lucky escape but I wanted to say the biggest thank you to the paramedics in the NHS England London ambulance team and the doctors at Royal London Hospital.'
