Coco Sumner: I became a virtual recluse after suffering a seizure

Coco Sumner, the daughter of Sting and Trudie Styler, today spoke for the first time about how she became a virtual recluse after suffering a seizure.

The 19-year-old was taken to hospital after blacking out and falling at her home in California last year. The cause of the seizure is still a mystery.

Today she described how she fell "like a milk bottle" before waking up in an ambulance critically ill.

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Her father Sting told the Standard in an interview in November how he had to convince her to cooperate with doctors, adding: "I got there and Coco was fighting tooth and nail with medics and refusing to co-operate.

"The doctors said this was highly dangerous: Unless we know now whether or not she has a clot she may die. You have to convince her.'

"I had my little girl's head in my hands and I tried cajoling, begging, bullying. You will die. I am your daddy. I am telling you this."

Coco Sumner with her parents

Coco told this week's NME magazine that doctors still do not know what caused her to fall: "They said I had a seizure. Apparently my bones froze up and I fell like a milk bottle."

She believes the accident made her even more withdrawn, adding: "I became a nervous wreck. I didn't really go out, I just stayed in and kept myself to myself."

After a few years on the pub and club circuit in London, it looks as if the teenager is about to have a chart breakthrough with her latest single Caesar after it was placed on Radio 1's playlist.

"I never thought it would make it to radio," she said, "because I wrote it as a kind of joke."

The singer dropped her surname and began performing with a band she named I Blame Coco when she became "tired" of being associated with her parents.

Asked if she was tired of talking about her parents, she said: "Yes. I think so. It should be about me, not them."