A Lanarkshire teenager left paralysed overnight due to a “one-in-a-million” condition , and told she may never walk again, has defied expectations and returned to the stage to pursue her dreams.

Nicola Harvie’s daughter, Jessie-Lou, 14, from Blantyre , was diagnosed with transverse myelitis – a rare spinal cord condition – in March 2024 after suddenly feeling weak in her legs and realising she “couldn’t really move”.

Nicola , 46, an education officer, said doctors told her that her “healthy” daughter might never walk again – and she described this as “the worst thing you can hear as a parent”.

Having already racked up credits in the 2021/22 UK tour of Les Miserables, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Scottish Opera, and as Charlie Bucket in the UK and Ireland tour of Charlie & t

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