Katie Piper returns to Loose Women after major surgery, revealing tissue from donor was used to fix ‘hole’ in her eye

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LOOSE Women panellist Katie Piper returned to the daytime ITV show today - weeks after major surgery on her eye. The star detailed how she had received tissue from a donor to fix the dangerous "hole" in her eye last month in a horrifying health scare.

Katie, 38, told Loose Women viewers about how she was grafted tissue from an eye by someone who had "passed away" and given all their organs up for donation.

The presenter - who underwent major surgery last month - reassured her co-star she was finally back to normal after being rushed for the surgery last month. "Three weeks ago I had a pain in my eye," she told viewers. "The pain got worse and worse and it was my husband that noticed I had this black dot inside my eye. "The pain got intolerable - all consuming, feeling it all in my skull and I couldn't tolerate light.

It was a perforation, a hole in the eye. READ MORE ON KATIE PIPERBACK ON Katie Piper returns to screens days after being rushed to hospital for operation'extreme pain' Katie Piper rushed to hospital for emergency operation "I had an emergency procedure, a cornea transplant - so somebody else's tissue is put over the perforation, a bit like a graft." She continued, explaining about the grafted tissue: "There is a national shortage of cornea tissue, but donor cornea's go to eye banks, and surgeons call around looking for tissue." "I think it was the stress of working with you," she joked of the reason behind the surgery.