Cheryl Cole has revealed that she lost the will to live as she battled malaria.

The singer contracted the disease after visiting Tanzania in 2010 and it later emerged that the situation was extremely serious.

Cole later recovered from the terrifying ordeal but in a new extract published from her autobiography Cheryl: My Story - which is available from October 11 - the Girls Aloud star said that she was "too tired to take any more" whilst in hospital. She said:

"I remember waking up in the Cromwell Hospital, delirious. That was when I started accusing the doctors of trying to kill me. They were covering my body in freezing, wet towels to try and lower my temperature, but I flung these back at them...My face was so puffy my eyes were like slits, and I was so swollen I looked nine months pregnant. A guy held an oxygen mask on my face, but I said, 'I know what you're doing. You're all trying to kill me. Don't think I'm stupid'."

The 'Call My Name' star continued: "Both lungs were filled with fluid, my liver was three times normal size and I was five minutes from needing life-long kidney dialysis. They put a catheter on me and I heard someone say, 'If she doesn't get rid of some of this fluid in the next 24 hours, we've lost her'. I can clearly remember asking the nurse if I was dying - and feeling relieved when she said, 'It's a possibility.' 'Make this end,' I thought. I just had nothing left...I was so over it by now - too tired to take any more."