She’s best known for playing Emmerdale’s Rachel Breckle, but in April this year, Gemma Oaten was left fighting for her life after contracting a rare disease. She joins us for her first TV interview since being hospitalised with Milk-Alkali Syndrome – which is caused by too much calcium in the blood – to reveal how she found out about her shock diagnosis, why it could stem from the eating disorder she battled for 13 years, and why she had to fight off trolls after being open about her illness on social media.
