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Rob Kearney’s girlfriend Jess Redden reveals near brush with death

Jess Redden has revealed she had a near death experience.

The 23-year-old, who is dating Ireland rugby star Rob Kearney, suffered kidney failure back in 2014.

“I was getting really bad pains in my back and I was like, ‘God what is that?'” she revealed.

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Close call: Jess Redden suffered from kidney failure | VIPIRELAND

“We went into A&E first and my creatinine levels were 80 and they’re supposed to be 300 and something, they were so, so low,” the model told the Irish Sun.

“[The doctors] kept me in and ran tests. They were talking about dialysis and biopsies. And they couldn’t even explain it. They still don’t know why, they thought it was a big massive viral infection.

“My poor parents, they were so upset. I was in Blackrock for two weeks, I couldn’t get out of bed I was just so sick.

“Gradually I got better, I was given antibiotics but it was scary at the time, but that’s when I really valued my own health. I hadn’t really thought about it much until then.”

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It was from the scary experience that the fitness fanatic decided to go back to college this September to study pharmacy.

“That reinforced the importance of health for me. People think that pharmacists, the traditional role is just dispensing medicines. But they do so much more.

“I was always academically driven and I loved exam season and all my friends were like ‘you’re so weird!’ They all have full-time jobs whereas I will be going back so it will be a bit different balancing everything out.

“I think being part of a team that manufactures a drug that can save millions of people lives, it’s just like I’d love that.”

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