Furious Patsy Palmer storms off GMB and refuses to do her interview

Patsy Palmer refused to take part in a Good Morning Britain interview live on air after she saw they had branded her ‘addict to wellness guru’ on Wednesday.

The furious star, 48, said she didn’t appreciate being referred to as an ‘addict’ because it was ‘years ago’, before abruptly leaving the virtual chat.

The ex-EastEnders actress, who had a 20-year battle with drink and drugs, declared she was ‘doing a Piers Morgan’, after the former host stormed off the show last week.

During the first few minutes of her interview, hosts Ben Shepard and Susanna Reid quizzed Patsy on her decision to leave the UK for the U.S. 

Patsy said: ‘You know what actually I’m not, I don’t even want to do this interview because I don’t even want to look at what it says at the bottom of that screen.

‘I’m going to switch off, do a real Piers Morgan and say it’s not ok to have ”addict to wellness guru” on the bottom of the screen. You know, my issues I had years ago that were talked about by me many many years ago and it’s over.’

Ben Shepherd replied: ‘So sorry about that Patsy. Huge apologies, it wasn’t our intention to upset you, that’s obviously a quote from Patsy’s book, and as she’s talked about in the past.’

While Susanna Reid added: ‘Well that’s a terrible shame, our apologies to Patsy.’

Bewildered fans who were watching the show live took to Twitter to comment on Patsy’s decision to suddenly leave the interview.

One person said: ‘Patsy Palmer shuts down GMB. Not a good week for the show.’ 

Another person sympathised with Patsy and said: ‘#GMB fair play to #patsypalmer told them where to stick their interview live on air… I’m going to do a Piers she said just before switching off.’

A third wrote: ‘No but what is going on over at GMB today man??? Patsy Palmer really locked off the whole interview right at the start.’