Meghan Markle’s estranged father had the bottom half of his left leg amputated in a “case of life or death” after he was rushed to a hospital in the Philippines on Wednesday.

Meghan Markle attempted to email her dad, Thomas Markle, in an email that went unseen, while he pleaded with his daughter publicly to make contact with him.

Thomas was hospitalized earlier this week in Cebu in the Philippines after a blood clot cut off circulation to his left leg and the limb turned black.