Loose Women’s Nadia Sawalha hits out at Phillip Schofield for branding Holly Willoughby a ‘witch’

LOOSE Women prima Nadia Sawalha has backed Holly Willoughby aft Phillip Schofield branded her a "witch" and blamed her for his This Morning demise.

Shamed Schofe, 62, walked distant from ITV past twelvemonth aft admitting to lying astir an matter with a overmuch younger antheral colleague.

Earlier this period helium made his archetypal television quality since the scandal, starring successful Channel 5 three-parter Cast Away, which saw him marooned connected a deserted land adjacent Madagascar for 9 nights.

During the programme, Phillip reflected connected his clip successful the TV wilderness and the events that led to it.

We person since revealed however helium messaged erstwhile champion pal Holly Willoughby aft his This Morning exit accusing her of "bringing him down" and has nicknamed her "the witch".

He besides branded her a "s**t", on with This Morning exertion Martin Frizell and Emma Gormley, ITV’s managing manager of daytime.

Phillip's erstwhile ITV stablemate Nadia Sawalha, 59, precocious criticised his televised redemption effort, calling it "cringey".

Now, in an exclusive interrogation with The Sun, Nadia said seeing Holly blamed for idiosyncratic else's mistakes makes her consciousness "very cross".

She said: "I'm precise blessed to reply this, successful that I get really, truly transverse with the satellite erstwhile women always, truthful often, are blamed.

"I mean, I don't cognize Holly and I don't cognize Phil, I've benignant of nodded astatine them going down the corridor. But I deliberation conscionable she's had a truly pugnacious time.

"And I truly instrumentality umbrage with radical saying that she's the occupation here. So I consciousness truly powerfully astir that.

"Obviously, I don't cognize the ins and outs, but I cognize capable times erstwhile you look astatine things that person happened successful the public, it's astir ever the pistillate that's blamed. She's had a horrendous year. So yeah, that made maine cross."

Holly herself shrugged disconnected Phillip's criticism, with pals claiming the TV prima “couldn't attraction less”.

The 43-year-old has yet to publically respond to the comments but those adjacent to the prima told The Sun she'd ne'er emergence to Phil.

A pal added: “Holly isn't batting an eyelid astatine this, it's similar she couldn't attraction less.

“Phil is coming crossed arsenic incredibly bitter.

“Holly knows who her friends are and they're the radical she pays attraction to.”

Meanwhile, Nadia has much pressing concerns, namely a run to get thousands of women with incurable crab entree to a cause that could widen their lives.

Enhertu - which is utilized to dainty patients similar them successful 25 countries including Scotland - has been denied for usage connected the NHS by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) owed to its cost.

It's estimated to beryllium astir £10,000 per diligent per twelvemonth successful the US wherever it is disposable to crab patients.

Nadia's adjacent person Hannah Gardner, 37, whom she calls her 'daughter', is presently connected Enhertu arsenic portion of a objective proceedings that sees her besides having to instrumentality a much toxic cause arsenic portion of its conditions.

So far, the mum-of-one's tumours person responded good to the life-extending medicine, but the hold successful getting onto the proceedings allowed her signifier 4 crab to spread.

Nadia explained wherefore the group, which has raised £45,000 towards its target at the clip of writing, is having to self-fund lawyers to contention NICE's decision.

Speaking from her home, she says: "Big Pharma told america that NHS England person been offered it [Enhertu] astatine the lowest terms of anyone other that's taken Enhertu. And truthful that's NICE then, who are successful complaint of approving.

"I was successful the [Royal] Marsden galore times with Hannah and them saying, 'oh, well, it volition travel through. There's ever a spot of this backmost and distant and it volition travel through'.

"You know, it's an astonishing drug. Nothing's had this absorption since Herceptin, which we cognize has saved hundreds of thousands of women's lives.

"So everybody thought it was a dormant cert, but what happened is there's thing called a severity modifier; if you imagine, secondary breast cancer was successful the file of a terrible illness and determination was a definite cookware of money for that, but they moved it crossed the file to moderately severe. Now determination is nary cure for secondary bosom cancer.

"So for those women to beryllium told that their illness wasn't terrible and was lone mean and that that cookware of wealth that was implicit determination is present nary longer disposable to bargain this cause was conscionable devastating."

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