As a pale and shaking Phillip Schofield gave his bombshell TV interview last week, the disgraced star admitted he’d “screwed up, royally” as he gave a shocking and at times defiant account of his friendship and subsequent secret affair with a young This Morning co-worker.
Facing a scandal that has rocked ITV and seen him lose his job, agent and many of his celebrity allies, the fragile star agreed to the sit down chat with BBC Media Editor Amol Rajan in a bid to address the facts as the fallout from his earlier admission of lies and deceit continued.
“I’ll never forgive myself,” he said, speaking in a halting voice about what he called a “workplace fling”. Looking far from the confident TV personality who has appeared on our screens for the last 41 years, he began his account by saying, “You come to a point where you just think, ‘How much are you supposed to take?’
“I haven’t looked at a single newspaper. I deleted all the apps that took off all my notifications. I have not looked at my phone or looked at the news. If you don’t think that that is going to have the most catastrophic effect on someone’s mind… do you want me to die? Because that’s where I am.”
Under intense questioning from the journalist, Phillip, 61, who has maintained he is “not a groomer” opened up about his relationship with the then 15-year-old drama school student he’d helped to secure work experience on This Morning. He explained how their secret affair did not start until he was 20 years old and over the age of consent.
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