The Darkness‘ Justin Hawkins has revealed how he was rushed to hospital recently after his shorts melted onto his skin in a freak accident.The singer and guitarist was covered in toxic pool chemicals after an attempt to fix the swimming pool at his home in Switzerland went wrong.He had to undergo emergency treatment, and he’s now opened about the painful accident in a video on celebrity message service Cameo.Hawkins said: “There was a problem with the pool, a pump thing and some chemicals came out of it.
I think it was a PH negative chemical to control the acidity of the pool.“I was trying to fix it and I touched my legs and my shorts melted onto my legs, so then I had to go to hospital.”Hawkins is believed to have made a full recovery.