Avril Lavigne thought she was "dying" when she couldn't talk or move while suffering Lyme disease.
The 30-year-old singer feared her life was coming to an end after she was struck down with the infectious disease, which is caused by tick bites, in October resulting in her being bedridden for five months.
She said: "I felt like I couldn't breathe, I couldn't talk and I couldn't move. I thought I was dying.
"I had no idea a bug bite could do this. I was bedridden for five months."
At times the When You're Gone hitmaker didn't shower for weeks because she couldn't stand up and her mother had to move into her home in Ontario, Canada, to look after her.