Tearful radio hosts say sorry to nurse’s family in UK
AUSTRALIA: The Australian radio hosts who made a prank call to
a London hospital treating Prince William’s wife Kate Monday said they
were heartbroken as they recalled hearing the news that a nurse had been
found dead.
Mel Greig and Michael Christian from Sydney station 2Day FM have been
in hiding and undergoing counselling since their hoax sparked global
outrage following the apparent suicide of Jacintha Saldanha.
In interviews on Australian television, the pair broke their silence
following Saldanha’s death last week in London, as 2Day FM’s owner said
it was cancelling their show and stopping all prank calls by its
broadcasters.
An emotional Greig said she was devastated at being told the
Indian-born nurse had died.
“Unfortunately I remember that moment very well because I haven’t
stopped thinking about it since it happened,” she told Australia’s Seven
Network in a teaser segment ahead of the broadcast of the full interview
later Monday.
“And I remember my first question was, was she a mother?” In a
separate interview with the Nine Network, Greig added: “It came into my
head that I just wanted to reach out to them (the family), give them a
big hug and say sorry. I hope they’re OK, I really do.” The call, with
Greig and Christian posing as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles, was
taken by mother-of-two Saldanha, 46, at London’s King Edward VII
Hospital.
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