Actress Sues AstraZeneca After COVID-19 Jab Leaves Her With Brain Injuries

Published on November 14, 2023

An Australian theatre star and vaccination advocate is suing pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, claiming that a life-threatening stroke left her unable to work after taking the company’s vaccine. Melle Stewart, 42, is known for her acting in both the UK and Australia, including playing the lead in the musical Mamma Mia! and Channel 7’s Home and Away. Ms. Stewart received her first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on May 24, 2021. Two weeks later, she began having seizures, lost her ability to speak, and lost all movement on the right-hand side of her body. Brain surgeons diagnosed her with Vaccine-Induced Thrombocytopenic Thrombosis (VITT), a blood-clotting condition that the manufacturer and the regulators now acknowledge as a “very rare side effect” of this particular vaccine....