India, May 4 -- A UK woman who suffered a stroke and woke up with a Chinese accent has broken her silence over the torment she has faced for 15 years while struggling to cope with her new way of speaking.

According to Daily Mail, Sarah Colwill was 35 when her own Devon accent disappeared overnight in 2010 and her new accent has led to her facing racial abuses. Hers is one of only 100 known cases of foreign accent syndrome (FAS) in the world. FAS is a rare neurological condition where a person's speech patterns change, leading to a perceived foreign accent by others.

Now, 50 years old, Colwill still speaks with a Chinese accent despite having never visited Asia in her life.

The Plymouth resident claimed that the life-changing medical in...