A British influencer is fighting for life in a South Korean hospital after mysteriously being found unconscious in her apartment with a black eye and severe dehydration.
Content creator Ashley Surcombe, 29, was found by police who broke in, after her worried parents Nigel and Karen contacted them via a friend, when she failed to reply to messages and calls.
Paramedics rushed her to hospital, and she is currently in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Seoul suffering from severe dehydration and multiple organ failure.
Ashley – who has been living in South Korea for five years – is originally from Evesham and her distraught father has flown out to be by her bedside.
She was found on Monday after a friend of the family contacted police on their behalf, and officers entered her apartment and found her on the bathroom floor.
There were no signs of a forced entry and Ashley lived on her own.
Worried sister Kat Surcombe, 33, an aerospace engineer said: ‘We just don’t know what happened and we are trying to find out exactly, but it’s been difficult, and we have had to rely on contacts out there.
‘She was found unresponsive and unconscious on the floor; she didn’t have any broken bones, but she was severely dehydrated and has major organ failure.
‘About a week ago she told us she she hit her head against the door and got a nasty bruise on her eye.
‘Her blood sugar levels are very low and when we spoke with her on Saturday, she seemed confused, and you could barely see her lips she was so dehydrated.
‘We were supposed to speak with her at 8pm on Sunday (Korean time) but she never answered, and we didn’t get any response from messages so that’s when we called police through a friend of my dad who has contacts out there.
‘When they heard back that she was in hospital it was just horrible as we felt so helpless and so far away.’
Ashley is well known as a content creator in the UK and has over a million followers across her social media pages.
Ashley – who is fluent in Korean – had been planning to travel across the country and Southeast Asia and write up her experiences for her social media.
But the plan has now been put on hold as there is no indication as to when she may be released, and her family are now having to deal with spiralling hospital bills as Ashley’s insurance had expired.
Kat explained that an ICU stay is £1,500 a day and once stabilised that will drop to £500 plus tests including X rays, blood tests and scans have cost £100,00.
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