Jamie Dornan’s friend is reflecting on an apparent encounter with “toxic” caterpillars in Portugal that landed both of them in hospital last year.
Gordon Smart, a Scottish broadcaster, announced on the BBC The Good, the Bad and the Unexpected comedy show on January 12 about an incident that occurred when he and three friends from Northern Ireland – Dornan among them – went golfing.
After a night of drinking wine and espresso martinis, Smart said on the show that he personally began experiencing “tingling in his left arm and tingling in his left arm,” which he concluded were “normally signs of the onset of a heart attack.”
He was rushed to a local hospital as his heart rate was 210 beats per minute. Smart then crashed in the Uber, woke up in a hospital bed and explained to the doctor how much alcohol he had consumed the night before.
“As I was laying there, one of the other guys I was with walked past him on the hospital bed as the doctors were yelling the same questions at him,” Smart recalled. “And I thought, ‘That’s not a good sign that he’s in the same condition as me.’ ”
After leaving the hospital and returning to his place, Smart soon realized that his friend was still there. “There [Dornan] was with all these things attached to this chair saying, ‘Gordon, about 20 minutes after you left, my left arm went numb, my left leg went numb, my right leg went numb. And I found myself in the back of an ambulance,’ he recalled.
A representative for Dornan did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Monday.
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Jamie Dornan and Gordon Smart were joined by a friend for a day on the golf course.
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According to Smart’s Instagram, he and Dornan joined friends in Portugal to play golf in March 2023.
Smart said he received a “phone call from the doctor” a week after their golf outing asking if the group had come into contact with caterpillars on the golf course, before sending him a local news story about processionary caterpillars.
According to Forest Research, pine moth caterpillars have thousands of tiny hairs that contain an “urticating or irritating protein called thaumetopoei,” which can lead to rashes, sore skin, eyes, and throat, and in rare cases, allergic reactions. However, moths are “harmless” to both humans and animals.
The insect is found in warmer areas of southern Europe, the Middle East and northern Africa. “With stinging hairs,” it can sting “anyone who tries to molest them, which has drawn public attention to the caterpillars,” according to the SUNY Cortland college’s website.
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“It turns out that there are caterpillars on golf courses in the south of Portugal that were killing human dogs and giving men heart attacks in their 40s. It turns out that we managed the procession caterpillars again and we were very lucky to get out of it alive,” he said. is Smart.
“So that’s my story. The good news is that it wasn’t a caffeine overdose, it wasn’t a hangover. It was a poisonous, poisonous caterpillar,” he added.
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