Sports presenter was told his mystery illness was incurable after suffering unbearable pain – but ancient eastern remedies have already benefited mind and body

Former BT Sports host Darrell Currie has revealed that he has turned to ancient eastern remedies in a bid to overcome the illness that has left him fighting for his life over the past two-and-a-half years. 

The 42-year-old was a regular part of BT Sport’s coverage of Scottish football and the Champions League before his life took a sudden turn for the worst in September 2022.

Currie was live on air, working on a Nations League clash between Scotland and Ireland alongside Martin O’Neill and Alan Hutton. 

The presenter then felt an intense pain in his head and was forced off air – the start of a health nightmare that has plagued him ever since. 

That was the last time that Currie was able to work on live television as the pain began to spread all over his body. 

Doctors have been unable to find a cure to his illness and Currie has now turned to ancient eastern remedies with a practitioner. 

Currie (centre) was live on air, working on a Nations League clash when he felt symptoms

The 42-year-old was a regular part of BT Sport’s European and Scottish football coverage

In an interview with the Times, Currie said: ‘Sometimes I felt like a bit of a guinea pig. 

‘They were just throwing things at me. Some would prescribe things without naming the meds, then you start reading about them and think, wait a minute, why am I taking this?’

Currie is  on an anti-inflammatory diet and is taking antiviral herbal preparations and practising positive visualisation techniques having lost faith in traditional methods. 

‘My new approach is a healthy one: I don’t know if it’s going to have all the answers but it’s not going to hurt me. 

‘On the whole I’m not much worse off than I was on the pain medication. That’s pretty unbelievable given that most people with a chronic condition will draw on those meds for the rest of their life.’ 

On his current condition, Currie added: ‘On some days it’s tough to walk and on others the pain is unimaginable, but at other times you can control that pain and just live your life,’ he said.

‘I want to keep believing all the way that I’m going to have a good life, even if it’s not the same life. I need to give my family the best life they can possibly have, so even if I can’t get 100 per cent of the old me back I’ll take 70 per cent over nothing at all.’

Before joining BT Sport (which has now rebranded as TNT Sports), Currie worked for BBC Scotland, CNN International and ESPN.