Fair City actor and Dancing With The Stars winner Ryan Andrews has opened up about the terrifying experiences that faced his family after his ‘best friend’, his father Jimmy, contracted COVID-19 and was rushed to hospital.
Ryan’s dad is known for cycling 28kms a day so he was in good health when he was struck with the disease. The young star and his father joined the Ray D’Arcy Show where together they recounted the life-changing events as he fought for his life in hospital and had to be placed in an induced coma. ‘My dad thought he got a helicopter into the Mater,’ the proud son revealed. ‘He thought he got special services, but we were like, unfortunately, it was just the back of an ambulance!’ ‘My dad actually collapsed in the ambulance