Abbey Clancy 'thought Peter Crouch was dead' after health change at night
Peter Crouch revealed he has been suffering with a health problem during the night, but wife Abbey Clancy noticed a recent change that caused her some concern
Abbey Clancy thought husband Peter Crouch “was dead” after noticing a change in the middle of the night.
The former England and Liverpool footballer revealed he regularly wakes Abbey up by snoring. He says this is because he has polyps - a small growth that appears in the nose.
These can often cause issues such as problems with taste and smell as well. However Peter, 44, says he recently swapped medicine to deal with the problem.
Peter also sought advice from a chiropractor as he had been having difficulties with his neck. He believes the combination of the two meant his snoring has stopped recently.
On the couple’s The Therapy Crouch podcast, Peter explained: “I’ve got some new medicine for my polyps, it’s really helping my allergies and everything, and I’ve ended up not snoring. And I’ve got a new pillow from the chiropractor because I’ve had a bad neck.
“I went to see a chiropractor, gave me this new pillow, and they gave me this dipped pillow. I’ve got this new pillow and I wasn’t snoring the other night and I was fast asleep.”
Abbey asked: “How do you know?” To which her husband replied: “I’ll tell you how I know, because you elbowed me for not snoring.
“She elbowed me in the middle of the night, she probably won’t even remember, about 3am. She thought I was dead.
“I said, ‘What the hell did you do that for? You said, ‘You weren’t making a sound.”
Abbey admitted she didn’t remember waking her husband in the night. Peter, laughing, bemoaned: “How can I possibly even win here?
“If I’m snoring, I’m keeping you awake and I’m a pain in the a***. If I’m not snoring, you’re worrying I’m dead.”
Abbey replied: “You can’t hold that against me if I’m fast asleep. I cannot bear the snoring.”
The former model however joked Peter’s new pillow was “such an ick”. She joked: “I wanted to put it over your head and suffocate you with it.”
Peter previously revealed his polyps meant that he struggled with his sense of taste and smell. Speaking to the Sunday Times, he said: “Abbey and I would go out for dinner, the waiter would come over with the wine and I would think back to a Michael McIntyre quote about being selected for the main role in the B******* Production.
“The glass may have had a stink bomb in it, but unless it was visible to the naked eye I wouldn’t have known. And yet I had to go through the whole charade, Abbey trying to keep a straight face. ‘What do you think, Pete? Is it corked?’ Me going through the whole Production rigmarole when I just wanted to shrug, Partridge-style, ‘Just flipping pour it, mate …’”