‘I’m not sleeping – there’s a lot of Southern Comfort’: Phillip Schofield says he’s ‘vaping so much his hands are blistered’ and he’s stopped eating after affair was exposed
- Schofield has drunk ‘a lot of Southern Comfort’ since admitting his affair
- Former This Morning presenter also told how he is not sleeping or eating
Phillip Schofield has revealed he is vaping while sitting on the sofa and staring into space so much since quitting This Morning that he has ‘blistered both hands’.
The 61-year-old presenter also told how he is not sleeping or eating and has drunk ‘a lot of Southern Comfort’ since admitting his affair with a younger male colleague.
Schofield, who had presented the show since 2002, said he does ‘not think I will be able to walk down a street ever again’ and his mind is in ‘constant, utter turmoil’.
During clips of his interview with The Sun, his first newspaper chat since admitting to the affair, he occasionally smoked a blue vape, which he held in his hand.
‘I am not sleeping, I am not eating. There’s a lot of Southern Comfort,’ he said. ‘My mind is in constant, utter turmoil. I think back to regrets, forwards to… What do I do now? What I am going to do now?’
Phillip Schofield was seen taking drags from a vape as he answered questions from The Sun
Schofield told The Sun he has been vaping while sitting on the sofa and staring into space
During the interview, Schofield showed his ‘collection’ of blisters and calluses, according to The Sun.
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He said: ‘I’ve been vaping, a lot. I didn’t realise until suddenly it hurt, but I’ve been sitting looking up at the sky or out of the window, just staring into space.
‘I just sit on the sofa and stare. I realise by doing that, I’ve blistered both hands.’
Schofield also spoke to the BBC and said he has ‘lost everything’ in the wake of his affair as he told of a ‘catastrophic effect’ on his mind.
He said the fallout from the revelations had been ‘relentless’ and told the BBC’s Amol Rajan of the criticism he has faced since admitting to the affair, saying: ‘Do you want me to die? Because that’s where I am.’
Schofield said he saw ‘nothing ahead’ of him and he had to talk about his career in television ‘in the past tense’.
He said: ‘It is relentless, and it is day after day, after day after day.
Schofield was also interviewed by the BBC’s Amol Rajan following his exit from This Morning
Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby on the sofa of ITV’s This Morning last month, on May 11
‘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. I have lost everything.’
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Schofield resigned from ITV last Friday and was dropped by his talent agency YMU after admitting to the ‘unwise but not illegal’ relationship.
Body language expert Judi James told MailOnline that while Schofield was quizzed on his affair, which he previously dubbed ‘unwise, but not illegal’, he sucked on and massaged his blue vape ‘like a stress ball’.
She said that he had ‘his shoulders slumped’ with ‘deep groves at the sides of his mouth suggesting misery’ as he categorically denied that he did not groom his former lover.
As Schofield told of his text to co-host Holly Willoughby to say how ‘deeply, deeply sorry’ he was for lying to her about his secret relationship, Ms James said he had a ‘classical facial full of sorrow’.
Schofield and Willoughby had presented This Morning together since 2009, with Willoughby due to return to the show on Monday after the half-term break, having taken an early holiday after news of Schofield’s departure emerged.
Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary have been among the presenters hosting the programme in recent weeks.
It comes after ITV boss Dame Carolyn McCall was called to a parliamentary committee on June 14 to answer questions about the broadcaster’s approach to safeguarding and complaint handling following Schofield’s exit.
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