Kerry Katona reveals she hasn't been able to watch ITV 'for a long time' as she speaks out her interview with Phillip Schofield that left her feeling suicidal.
The former Atomic Kitten star is one of many people speaking out about the culture of 'toxicity' at ITV and This Morning amid Phillip's affair scandal. The disgraced TV presenter confessed to an 'unwise, but not illegal' affair with a runner on This Morning and has since cut all ties with ITV.
Speaking about her experience on GB News, Kerry said: "For a long time I've not been able to watch ITV. It makes me cringe. I think they're full of sh**. This Morning, for me personally, it triggers me."
Kerry, 42, references the infamous This Morning interview where Phillip, 61, said her speech was slurred live on air. The This Morning interview aired 15 years ago, where Phillip said: “I’ve got to ask you something, Kerry, because there will be a lot of people watching you now who would have followed your career and seen your ups and downs and really watched you lurch from crisis to crisis.
“As people, we’ve known you for a very long time, you don’t, if I’m honest now, seem right to me sitting here now. You got the body sorted but your speech is a bit slurred. How are you feeling?”
At the time, Kerry responded: “Is it? That’s probably because I have medication at night time which I took at about 11.30pm last night. Now, this is going to be made into a huge big publicity thing.”
In her bombshell interview with GB News, Kerry admits the interview with Phillip left her feeling suicidal and slammed ITV's lack of aftercare. She told Dan Wootton: "The culture at ITV and the toxicity and the aftercare is so lack of I was left suicidal. No one reached out to me whatsoever. It was so disgusting.
"The audacity, being condescending, and belittling to people with real issues on the sofa. Who are they to give him the right, for an opinion, to tell them what's right or wrong."
Kerry accused the presenter of having “belittling” her and being “condescending”. She added: “People don't understand what that interview did to me emotionally.”
She continued: “Even now, when I go back to ITV - which isn't very often - there is a sense of snobbery and that I'm not good enough. I feel like I have to impress them, I've got to watch my speech, I can't slur.”
Speaking about how the interview left her suicidal, Katona claimed: “It was just awful. I was suicidal. I wanted to die, I wanted to kill myself. It was everywhere.”
The 42-year-old, who has been sober for more than a decade, also alleged that nobody wanted to work with her following the interview and revealed how it impacted her everyday life. She explained: “Even now, when I look at that video, I feel so ashamed and so hard done by, even now. For ten years, I've had to justify myself.”
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