Forensic scientist Roland Wessling appeared on Loose Women to warn about the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning after his partner, Hazel Woodhams, tragically lost her life.
He expressed his support for the show's carbon monoxide awareness campaign Say No To CO.
Roland told of his camping trip to Great Yarmouth with Hazel and how after they had finished with their coal barbecue and let it go cold that it was perfectly safe to bring into the tent to keep it dry.
But unfortunately the carbon monoxide from the barbecue inside the tent caused Hazel's death.
Roland said of the tragic accident: "How I survived is completely unknown. Yeah a miracle to be honest... No medical person could understand how I survived this and Hazel didn't, especially because Hazel was probably dead within 5-10 minutes."
He described how he woke up dazed and sick: "It took me a very long time to regain consciousness properly and as soon as I was conscious enough to understand there was something seriously wrong.
"I turned around and I was only lying half inside my sleeping bag and I must have tried to get out at some point in the night but I've got no recollection and Hazel was just an arm length away from me and she was dead."
The effects of the CO poisoning are still with Roland today as he explained: "I was lying on my right arm the entire night, and obviously you would normally wake up and roll over during the night, but because I was drugged from the carbon monoxide I couldn't and I felt nothing from the shoulder down.
"My arm had blown up to twice it's size and I was for two weeks in intensive care and had eight operations in order to save the arm."
As forensic scientists Roland his girlfriend Hazel were aware of the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning in their home, having installed CO monitors but never considered the effects a barbecue could have wile on holiday.
Sharon Wood, who sadly lost her son Bobby and daughter Christi after a gas leak broke out while they were on holiday with their father and his girlfriend, returned to Loose Women to help launch the Say No To CO campaign.
The heartbroken mother has been campaigning relentlessly for the last nine years to make Thomas Cook take responsibility for the deaths of her little ones by not placing CO detectors in its villas.
She said: "My children died needlessly," she added. "My aim now is to make sure it becomes mandatory for people to have carbon monoxide alarms in their homes."
As part of its Say No to CO campaign, Loose Women has given away 3,000 carbon monoxide alarms.
Loose Women is back on ITV1 tomorrow at 12.30pm.
