TIM Healy has revealed he was left in a coma after he was rushed to hospital while filming Benidorm - but that his son's music brought him back around.

The actor - who plays transvestite Lesley in the ITV comedy - was taken ill with a mystery illness while filming the last series of the show and now believes it was being played his son's records that brought him out of it and back to health.

5 Tim has revealed his eldest son, Matt, brought him out of his coma Credit: Rex Features

His son with Denise Welch, Matt Healy is frontman of The 1975 who have had a string of hits and Tim has revealed how listening to the music saved him.

"I was in a coma for days, so obviously I don’t remember any of it," he told the Daily Mirror.

"She [Jo] was in bits, as you can ­imagine. She said that while I was in a coma she kept playing my son’s music to me, she had his album on a loop. After a few days I started smiling and then I came round - so my son’s music brought me back to the land of the ­living."

Tim also admitted that he doesn't know how his absence will be treated on the show, adding: "I came off set that day and then went to hospital, that was it. I don’t know how Derren [scriptwriter Derren Litten] wrote me out.

5 Matt is the frontman to the 1975 Credit: Getty Images

5 Lesley is one of the long-running characters in the ITV comedy Credit: TIGER ASPECT

5 The actor plays Les and Lesley in the ITV comedy Credit: Supplied by PLANET PHOTOS

"I’m going to have to wait and see it like viewers. There were complications at the ­­hospital and I ended up in intensive care.

And Tim is feeling "so much better" now and can't wait to get back to work full time.

"I’m feeling so much better, I’m on the mend now. It’s been a long few months and we’ve really been through the wringer as a family, but we’ve come out the other side and I’m starting to work again.

5 Tim plays cross dresser Les/Lesley on the show Credit: WENN

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"There’s no holding me back. I lost about three stone, which is good but I wouldn’t recommend losing it the way I did. I’ve put a stone back on, but where I was a pit bull terrier, I’m now a ­sparrow. I’m a lightweight now ...

"ITV and everyone at Benidorm have been so amazing to me this last year with all my health problems. We’re a family on that show, there’s a loyalty there, so if they want me, and a 10th series is ­commissioned then I want to be there.

"I’ve got my bags packed already, I’m itching to be back there! I love that job and I love Benidorm."

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