Young faced multiple leg fractures after he slipped and fell down a flight of outdoor steps while on holiday on the Greek island of Santorini.
The singer, best known for hit Wherever I Lay My Hat, shared that the accident happened just 24 hours into the holiday.
Paul Young rushed to intensive care after horror fall
Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Young said: “It had been spitting with rain.
“The going underfoot, as they say, was quite good as I was walking on the flat, but when I got to the top of the steps, as soon as I put my foot on the first step, my leg slipped out from underneath me.
“I fell and my leg cracked as soon as I hit the step.
“Once I’d gone down, I couldn’t stop.
“There was no handrail, so nothing to hold on to.
“I just thought, ‘I’ve lost control’.
“I fell down to three or four more steps, fracturing my leg again and again.
“It was a multi-fracture.
“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.”
Young’s wife, Lorna, alerted staff at the five-star De Sol Hotel and Spa reception, and the singer was soon rushed to Santorini General Hospital in Karterados.
The accident happened in September when X-rays revealed a series of fractures to his left thigh bone.
Telling the Daily Mirror: “All the multi-fractures were right at the top in the femur, the leg’s biggest bone, by the ball joint so it was very worrying.
“The fractures were so close to each other, there was a danger of the leg snapping.
“The only medication they had was paracetamol.
“I was screaming out all the time and most of the time I had my eyes shut because the pain was terrible.”
Young was forced to lay on a gurney in the hospital corridor for nine hours as there were no surgeons at the Santorini hospital.
The 80s singer was later flown to Athens where he could get urgent care and later underwent surgery to have a metal rod inserted into the centre of the femur.
Young said that for a few days following the accident, he felt “messy”, sharing: “For the first few days, there was so much blood loss, they were changing the sheets every day.
“A lot of people were coming in to look at the wound and they were all speaking Greek so I didn’t know what they were saying.
“I was semi-delirious a lot of the time because of the blood loss. It was a frightening time.”
Young then spent a fortnight in the hospital before returning to the UK where he spent two days at the London private Cleveland Clinic.
Over the five months since the accident, Young has built up strength to walk again, but at the end of November, he faced a huge setback when the bolt at the bottom of his leg road snapped.
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Explaining: “I’d just started to feel like I was getting better.
“I was using just one crutch around the kitchen and had started to drive my car again.
“Then I woke up one morning in agony.
“I thought, ‘Why aren’t the painkillers working?’”
The singer then went through 10 hours of operation to fix the broken fixture and shared that he now feels “fighting fit and ready.”
