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Vicky Pattison says she will 'always be really sorry' for 2013 nightclub assault

Former Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison has said she will "always be really sorry" as she discussed a previous nightclub assault in Newcastle.

Vicky was arrested after injuring two people in Florita's in the summer of 2013 - when the Wallsend-born lass threw her shoes at 18-year-old Hannah Kelso - leaving her with cut under her eye requiring four stitches.

Another show hit security officer Victoria Burns, who was reportedly left with a lump and cut to the lip.

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And almost 10 years on Vicky says she is severely remorseful for her actions and admits that she is "always going to be sorry". Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live show, Vicky chatted to host Richard Coles about the scenario which changed her life forever.

On the programme, she said: "We were actually just discussing that weren't we Natasha?" speaking to fellow guest Natasha Lance Rogoff, adding: "She gave us her business card and says 'get in touch when you get through America.' I says 'oh well there's no chance of that...I can't get in.'

"Listen, again like I mentioned earlier, I've got absolutely no secrets. Anyone who's familiar with the early years of my career knows that I haven't always got it right and haven't been this nice. And that was always gonna be a deep moment of regret for me.

"It would be dead easy for me to blame Geordie Shore and producers, and MTV and everybody else for my moments of misadventure and my mistakes. But actually, there comes a time when you've got to take some level of accountability and responsibility.

"Yes I was in a situation where I actually in retrospect don't feel like I had the correct tools to navigate. I was too young, and inexperienced to deal with the level of pressure that I feel like I was under and I was trying desperately to perform and to be what I thought everybody wanted me to be."

She continued: "As I was saying, I have to hold my hands up eventually and say I was young, I was lost, I had loads of misguided anger and I did a terrible thing - and I'm always going to be sorry, you know?

"I had a fight in a nightclub, and the poor girl came off worse and I am really sorry. I'll always be really sorry, you don't hurt somebody and not be you know?"

After appearing in court and pleading guilty to two assaults, she was ordered to carry out 180 hours’ unpaid work and pay £4,000 compensation to Hannah Kelso.

Richard then went on to highlight that Vicky grew up with a father who was an alcoholic, and wondered if the scenarios she was exposed to were a contributing factor. Vicky answered: "I think your formative years, when you're sort of developing, it helps shape the person you become and also like what you think is normal.

"Loud, aggressive situations were normal to me and it helped me become a loud and aggressive young person you know? I didn't feel like confrontation was scary or something out of the ordinary, it was my norm, you know?

"And that's not to say I didn't have a lovely, happy childhood surrounded by gorgeous memories and people and stuff - I did. It was just the home of an alcoholic, and anybody who has gone through a similar situation is aware of that. So it definitely played a huge part in how I was growing up - especially before I realised that I wanted better and got therapy etc."

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