EastEnders star Michelle Collins has recalled how she was left "violently sick" after eating daffodils.
The actress has recalled how she needed some spring onions for a recipe when she got into her cooking in lockdown. However, they were placed next to the daffodils and in rush she picked a bunch of the flowers up instead.
They were discussing how Marks and Spencer apologised after putting spring onions next to daffodils in a display. If you eat daffodils, they can make you very ill as they include the chemical lycorine.
It can cause abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea amongst other painful symptoms if consumed.
Speaking to Ben Shephard and Susanna Reid on Good Morning Britain, she said: "I brought home what I thought was a spring onion, cooked it, chopped it up, put it in the wok, had a few tastes and next thing I was running to the loo. I was violently, violently sick."
Michelle was on the show to talk about free school meals and today, she will join campaigners from Barnardos to deliver a petition calling for change to No10, which has been signed by more than 32,000 people.
She said: "As a child of a single parent mother, my sister and I were eligible for free school meals, but it was a separate queue in the seventies, and kids were made to feel humiliated. So, my mum decided she wouldn’t put us through that, and she managed to get the money together. She often had three jobs going at one time.
"I think sadly there is still a stigma around free school meals. I think it should just be universal free school meals so, for whatever reason parents can’t pay, everyone is treated the same - no questions asked."
She explained that cost of living crisis was only making things worse for many families.
"The cost-of-living crisis is driving more and more families into poverty, and we know from our frontline work that this will affect children now and long into the future," she added, "Not having enough to eat can affect children’s growth, make it difficult to focus at school and harm their future life opportunities. Whether children have enough to eat shouldn’t be determined by their postcode.
"That is why we are calling on the Government to introduce free school meals for all primary school children in England, to support struggling families across the UK, and to do more to tackle hunger during the school holidays."
