United Kingdom, April 21 -- Kim Wilde feared her battle with COVID-19 would permanently affect her singing voice.

The British pop icon has contracted the respiratory illness - which sparked a global pandemic in 2020 - on a number of occasions and was left stricken by the disease.

Kim, 64, has revealed that COVID "interfered with my voice" and she was, at one stage, concerned that it would have a long-term effect on her ability to sing.

Speaking to BANG Showbiz, she said: "I had a few issues with COVID this past year and it's interfered with my voice. Now, I'm a hundred per cent fit and I've recovered but there were times whether I did wonder whether I would recover enough. Now that I have, the one thing that really came out very strong...