Morninggate - Daily Mail: Kerry Katona accuses Phillip Schofield of 'belittling' in interview

Story from Daily Mail:

Kerry Katona has accused Phillip Schofield of 'belittling' her in an infamous 2008 interview as she waded in on the 'toxic' culture at This Morning.

The former pop star and TV personality, 42, broke her silence by talking to Dan Wootton on GB News on Wednesday evening. 3-In the interview on This Morning 15 years ago Schofield, 61, queried her slurred speech live on air and told her she didn't seem 'right'.

Kerry accused him of 'belittling' her and being 'condescending' with his comments and explained that her bipolar medication was affecting the way she spoke at the time.

She also claimed she was left suicidal following the TV appearance and criticised ITV for allegedly not reaching out to her following the car-crash interview.

Kerry told Wootton: 'People don't understand what that interview did to me emotionally.

'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,' she added. 'I feel like I have to impress them, I've got to watch my speech, I can't slur.'

Saying the interview left her at 'rock bottom', Kerry revealed: 'It was just awful. I was suicidal. I wanted to die, I wanted to kill myself. It was everywhere.'

Kerry, who has been sober for 14 years, alleged that nobody wanted to work with her following the interview.

She broke down in tears as she explained how she still has to defend herself over the interview more than ten years later.

She said tearfully: '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.'

'I've got no reason to lie [about the medication], even today I have to justify myself for that interview,' she added.

The infamous live 2008 interview saw Schofield question Kerry about her slurred speech and ask her if she was 'OK', despite her insistence it was due to her medication.

He asked her: 'You don't seem right to me sitting here now, your speech is a bit slurred, how are you feeling now?'

Kerry then insisted that she was absolutely fine and had never been healthier or happier as she explained it was due to her medication.

In her interview on GB News, Kerry went on to claim that she has met the younger This Morning colleague Phillip confessed to having an affair with.

She told how she met with him during her time on Loose Women, adding: 'I met the young runner several times, lovely lad.'

MailOnline has contacted ITV for comment.