Health scare
In 2009 when home alone she collapsed but wasn’t found by her son for eight hours when he dialed an ambulance.
The businesswoman had suffered a stroke that left with sensation in her left arm and robbed her of some of her peripheral vision.
Not one to be held back, she was back working within six months.
Speaking in 2013 to the Daily Mail Hilary said: “I’m not anxious about my health now. We’re here for a given period of time and Him upstairs will decide when he wants us.
She added: “I don’t like getting old, but that’s life. I have Botox. I’d have a facelift if I knew the results would be good, but I don’t want to look like a freak.”
After her health scare, she married Philip Childs who was renovating her house in Spain.
But their union was short-lived and they filed for divorce in 2013, just two years after their wedding.
At the time, she told the Scotsman: “The marriage lasted one day; then it was over, down the pan almost before the wedding reception was finished.
“Of course, it was bloody hard knowing I’d got it wrong – yet again.”
The star was at her holiday home in Marrakech, Morocco, where she got stuck at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 due to lockdowns.
