Former Neighbours star slams final episode as a ‘shambles’ after being ‘snubbed’ for return
NICOLA Charles has sensationally claimed that she was snubbed for the Neighbours finale episode because of her stance on coronavirus.
The 52-year-old told The Daily Telegraph on Friday that she believes her vaccine status is behind the choice not to have her return.
“I’ve been cancelled because I am unvaccinated,” she told the publication, adding she’s been “universally cancelled for speaking her truth” about Covid and vaccines.
Nicola rose to fame after debuting as Karl Kennedy’s saucy mistress Sarah Beaumont on Neighbours in 1995.
She kept a reoccurring role until 1999, and returned twice from 2012 to 2013, and then again in 2016.
On Friday, the star said that she was not impressed with how the finale episode played out.
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“In the end I felt relief that Sarah Beaumont had not been part of the shambles offered up as the last episode of Neighbours,” she added.
In 2020, Nicola spoke out about her battle with coronavirus in a candid interview.
At the time, the actress-turned-author said she’s “still not over” the virus and it “took her down” for over six weeks back in March of 2020.
Describing her experience on Studio 10, she said: “I felt a really strange fluttering in my veins.
“I consider myself quite spiritual, and I had this overwhelming feeling that what was inside me wasn’t human.”
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She also shared a photo of her self-named “zombie eye” on Instagram, explaining that one of the symptoms is that her eye turned “totally red and zombified”.
The mother-of-three added that during the lowest point of her illness, she found herself “gasping for breath” on the floor on her hands and knees.
Fitness fanatic Nicola – who usually runs 26 kilometres a week – added: “I’m still not over it. When it hits you, it’s harder than anything else that’s ever happened.”