GOOD Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid and co-host Ben Shephard have apologised to Patsy Palmer after she was called an “ex addict”. The EastEnders icon abruptly ended her interview and “did a Piers Morgan” after taking offence to her description at the bottom of the screen, which read “addict to wellness guru”. Patsy, 48, closed the […]
GOOD Morning Britain’s Susanna Reid and co-host Ben Shephard have apologised to Patsy Palmer after she was called an “ex addict”.
The EastEnders icon abruptly ended her interview and “did a Piers Morgan” after taking offence to her description at the bottom of the screen, which read “addict to wellness guru”.
Patsy, 48, closed the screen of her laptop and told the TV hosts she “didn’t want to do” the interview as it “wasn’t OK” to refer to her that way.
Susanna and Ben quickly apologised, insisting that they didn’t mean for it to be offensive as they asked for her to stay to continue their chat.
“That was obviously a quote from Patsy’s book and it certainly wasn’t our intention,” Ben began to clarify before Susanna interjected.
“I had no idea that was on our screen, that’s a terrible shame,” Susanna chimed in. “Our apologies to Patsy.”
The TV host moved on to the next segment of the show saying: “Patsy is entitled not to do the interview, so we carry on.”
Patsy was appearing live from her home in Malibu, Los Angeles and was cuddling her dog as she appeared via a video link.
However, she seemed unimpressed from the off and wasn’t overly talkative as she stared intently at her screen.
She then leaned in even closer to read what was written under the video as Susanna asked for her views on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Actress Patsy began to answer before stopping and telling Ben, 46, and Susanna, 50: “don’t even want to do this interview because I don’t even want to look at what it says at the bottom of the screen.
“So I’m going to switch off, do a real Piers Morgan, and just say that it’s not OK to have ‘addict to wellness guru’ at the bottom of the screen.”
Not wanting to hear their apologies, she concluded: “My issues… I had them years ago, they were talked about by me many, many years ago and it’s over so I’m not going to talk about it.”
Patsy has previously been open about her 20-year addiction to drug and booze in the past, having admitted to first drinking alcohol at the age of eight.
But in 2010, she proudly revealed that she had been clean of drugs and alcohol since September 2004 and was starting a new life.
Despite Ben and Susanna’s apologies, Patsy hit out at GMB again on Instagram this afternoon for making her feel “small and worthless”.
“I haven’t written a book in 20 years so don’t believe that either,” she said of Ben’s reasoning.
“Guess what people! People change and grow and live happy healthy lives, so stop trying to make people small and worthless. Finish it now.”
