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A 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, Lanarkshire, 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 I

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