SCOTS singer-songwriter Charlotte Gordon Cumming has spoken of the overpowering moment when a friend offered to donate her kidney after undergoing secret blood tests.
Ms Gordon Cumming suffered kidney failure in 2008 after consuming poisonous mushrooms handpicked in the grounds of her brother's estate at Altyre House in Forres, Moray.
The musician, her husband – Horse Whisperer author Nicholas Evans – brother Sir Alastair Gordon Cumming and his wife, Lady Louisa, were rushed to hospital within hours of the family meal, in which they dined on deadly webcap mushrooms after Evans had mistaken them for harmless wild ceps.
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