Avril Lavigne feared ‘dying’ from Lyme disease

This February 15, 2011 file photo shows Lavigne at the O2 arena in east London ahead of the Brit Awards.

Rocker Avril Lavigne has revealed that she was bedridden for five months due to Lyme disease and felt she was dying.The 30-year-old Canadian guitarist and singer confirmed social media exchanges about her illness and said she was feeling better after her prolonged absence from public view fuelled rumours about her condition.“I felt like I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t talk and I couldn’t move,” Lavigne told US celebrity magazine People in an interview published on Tuesday. “I thought I was dying.”Lavigne said she spent five months in bed after being diagnosed late last year with Lyme disease, which is generally spread by bites from ticks.“There were definitely times I couldn’t shower for a full week because I could barely stand,” she said. “It felt like having all your life sucked out of you.”Lavigne said she was “80%” better and had been receiving care from her mother in Ontario as well as the singer’s husband Chad Kroeger, frontman for the band Nickelback.