Phillip Schofield interview: Alison Hammond breaks down on This Morning

This Morning presenter Alison Hammond has breached down unrecorded connected the programme portion reacting to the departure of ex-colleague Phillip Schofield.

Schofield told the BBC helium feels his "career is over" pursuing the matter helium had with a young antheral colleague.

Speaking connected Friday's show, Hammond said helium had apologised and urged radical not to justice his actions excessively harshly.

"I'm conscionable uncovering it truly achy due to the fact that evidently I loved Phillip Schofield," she said.

"And it's weird due to the fact that I inactive emotion Philip Schofield. However what he's done is wrong, he's admitted it, he's said sorry.

"But arsenic a [TV] household we're each truly struggling to process everything and I ne'er cognize what to say."

She continued: "But I retrieve what my mum ever said: 'Use your Bible arsenic your Sat Nav successful beingness Al', and successful the Bible it says 'he without sin, formed the archetypal stone'.

"And I conscionable don't privation to accidental thing atrocious due to the fact that evidently I'm successful conflict."

Schofield, 61, near the ITV amusement past week aft helium admitted lying astir the matter with a antheral colleague, who helium archetypal met astatine the property of 15 and helped to get into the industry.

The web has asked a barrister to pb a reappraisal into its handling of the short-lived relationship.

This week, alternatively of its accustomed presenters Schofield and Holly Willoughby, This Morning has been fronted by Hammond alongside Dermot O'Leary.

O'Leary noted that "what Phil has done is wrong" but suggested, fixed the wide coverage, determination should present beryllium concerns astir his intelligence health. Schofield told the BBC that caller events had near him feeling suicidal.

"As a society, rather rightly we speech astir intelligence wellness each the clip but that can't beryllium the sphere of radical who are connected the close broadside of history," said O'Leary.

Hammond added: "There's lone truthful overmuch a antheral tin take, isn't there? And I don't privation immoderate decease successful this situation."

Schofield, who is joined with 2 children, received an outpouring of enactment successful 2020 aft revealing helium is gay.