'Neighbours' star suffered collapsed lung

More details about Neighbours star Kym Valentine's recent health problems have emerged in the Australian media.

As well as being struck down with pneumonia as previously reported, the actress also suffered a collapsed lung while she travelled on a flight from New York to Melbourne earlier this month.

Valentine, who plays Libby Kennedy in the soap, spent several days in hospital following the nightmare journey. She is now continuing to recuperate at home.

The Courier Mail newspaper claims that the soap star will speak about the health scare in a forthcoming magazine interview.

Kym is one of the show's longest-serving actresses. She first joined Ramsay Street in 1994 and stuck with the programme for ten years before leaving to appear in a stage version of Dirty Dancing. She returned to the soap in 2007.