Katie Hopkins 'smashes face' during epileptic fit, but says experience helped restore her faith in mankind

Controversial TV personality Katie Hopkins was rushed to hospital after severely injuring her face during an epileptic fit - but said the experience has made her appreciate the good in the world.

The outspoken 40-year-old, who has previously revealed how the condition will most likely end her life early, was left lying in the street after a fit.

But, she said, strangers rallied around her, restoring her faith in mankind."I believe people are good at heart. Sometimes it takes the worst of times for us to see it," she said.

She took to Twitter to thank the black cab driver, Joe, for calling emergency services, after he messaged her wishing her well.

"To @joejohnpayne for calling and London Ambulance for coming. I thank you. Gas and air and a side order of smashed face," she replied, along with a picture of the oxygen mask used to bring her round.

In a column for the Daily Mail, she also thanked the group of people who used their umbrellas to shield her and the police officers and paramedics who came to her aid from the rain.

In the column, she said she had begun to wonder whether she should be grateful that her life might be short, and she might die "before the country I love becomes a stranger to me, or chemical warfare brings hell on earth, or another bombed plane drops from the skies".

But seeing how strangers gathered to help her, she said, helped remind her that the world was not "full of sadness".