Paul Young was left in intensive care following a horrific fall while on holiday in Santorini last year, he has revealed.

The eighties pop icon, 69, had been on holiday with his wife Lorna, 53, at the De Sol H๏τel and Spa on the Greek island when he suffered the horrific injury – which left him ‘screaming in pain’. 

Paul had been walking down the stairs to breakfast while it was pouring with rain when his leg slipped from under him and he heard a crack as it hit the step. 

The catastrophic fall – which saw Paul suffer multiple leg fractures and undergo gruelling surgery to have a metal rod fitted.

But after his surgery, Paul began haemorrhaging and was taken to intensive care where he received three emergency blood transfusions. 

‘Once I’d gone down, I couldn’t stop,’ he told The Mirror on Monday. ‘There was no handrail, so nothing to hold on to. I just thought, “I’ve lost control”.’

Paul Young was left in intensive care following a horrific fall while on holiday in Santorini last year, he revealed to The Mirror on Monday

Paul had been on holiday with his wife Lorna, 53, at the De Sol H๏τel and Spa on the Greek island when he suffered the horrific injury – which left him ‘screaming in pain’ (Seen together)

Paul fell down three or four more stairs, resulting in continued fractures to his leg. 

He said: ‘When I came to a stop, I looked down and my leg was in a slightly weird position, underneath my bottom. 

‘I thought “I don’t like that. My leg shouldn’t be like that”, so I tried to straighten it up and that’s when the pain started.’

His wife Lorna raised the alarm and Paul was rushed to Santorini General Hospital in Karterados – where x-rays showed multiple fractures to his left thigh bone.

‘I was screaming out all the time and most of the time I had my eyes shut because the pain was terrible,’ Paul said. 

Santorini had no surgeons, so Paul was flown on a private flight from the Greek island to Mediterraneo Hospital in the capital of Athens for surgery on his leg to have a metal rod inserted. 

However after his surgery, Paul suffered bad haemorrhages and had to stay in intensive care for two days where he received three blood transfusions. 

Two weeks later Paul was discharged from the Greek hospital and he flew back to the UK via private plane – 30,000 feet lower than commercial planes as he was anaemic and the high alтιтude could have increased his chance of suffering a life-threatening blood clot.

The eighties pop icon, 69, had been walking down the stairs to breakfast while it was pouring with rain when his leg slipped from under him and he heard a crack as it hit the step (Seen in 1985)

His wife Lorna raised the alarm and Paul was rushed to Santorini General Hospital in Karterados – where x-rays showed multiple fractures to his left thigh bone

Paul was then monitored at London’s private Cleveland Clinic for two days before being given crutches and returning to his home in Dunstable to recover. 

But his recovery was put in jeopardy in November when one of the bolts in the metal rod snapped.

Paul said he felt as though he was getting better but then one day woke up in agony – and later endured another 10-hour surgery to fix the broken bolt. 

In the five months since, Paul has undergone exhaustive physio and hydrotherapy rehab, strengthening his leg with resistance bands. 

Paul married Lorna in an intimate ceremony at Marylebone Registry office last July, six years after losing his wife Stacey Smith to brain cancer.

He shared a kiss with his spouse as they were greeted by their loved ones following their romantic ceremony as they were joined by a whole host of family and friends including The Apprentice star Thomas Skinner.

In October 2023, Paul revealed he was engaged to his girlfriend Lorna as he took to his Instagram to share a loved-up pH๏τo of himself and his then-fiancée.

Captioning the sweet snap, he wrote: ‘Lorna said Yes! We are both so happy and both looking forward to a wonderful future together’. 

Paul and Stacey tied the knot in a romantic ceremony in 1987 and shared three children together, Levi, 36, Layla, 29, and son Grady Cole, 27 (pictured in 1989)

Lorna also took to her own Instagram to share another smitten sH๏τ of the couple, writing: ‘My world, my love, my everything, 5 years of joy, I could not love anyone more.’

The Love of the Common People hitmaker’s wedding came six years after he lost his wife to cancer.

Stacey, who appeared in the video for Paul’s second single Come Back And Stay in 1983, died aged 52 in January 2018 following a two-year battle with brain cancer. 

The couple tied the knot in a romantic ceremony in 1987 and shared three children together, Levi, Layla and son Grady Cole.

While the couple didn’t divorce, they did split in 2006; Stacey welcomed her fourth child Jude, 12, with Israeli businessman Ilan Slazenger during that time.

However, Stacey and Paul decided to give their love a second chance when they reconciled in 2013, with the rocker becoming a stepdad to Jude.  

Stacey received her diagnosis when she and Paul had been married for 30 years.