Reality star Ferne McCann has admitted she made disgusting remarks about acid attack victim Sophie Hall being “ugly”, as she issues a grovelling apology.
The star has been accused of making “disgusting” comments about one of her ex-boyfriends victims, after he threw acid in an East London nightclub in April 2017 and injured 14 people.
Ferne’s ex, Arthur Collins, is currently serving 20 years in prison for the attack.
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An anonymous Instagram account later leaked private voice note recordings, which feature a woman’s voice labelling one of the jailed criminal’s victims a “silly b***h” amongst other slurs.
Ferne, 32, has now admitted to be responsible for the audio recordings and apologised to all the victims of Arthur Collins — her ex-boyfriend and father of her daughter, Sunday.
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In a statement addressing the accusations, the ex-Towie star said: “In particular I want to apologise to Sophie Hall. I do not believe her to be ugly or stupid. She has been brave beyond belief.”
“I am aware that people will have a number of questions about the voice messages being put into the public domain and purportedly sent by me.
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“I feel I have no choice but to address these — to the extent that I can as there are restrictions on me.”
Fearne firstly apologised to the victims, saying: “Most importantly I want to apologise to all the victims of Arthur Collins’ abhorrent actions in 2017 that they have to relive that night and the pain that followed because this matter is again in the public domain.”
She apologised to Sophie in particular, then went on: “Arthur Collins’ crimes created genuine victims so I am not trying to portray myself as one.
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“I am unable to say much because there are important and significant legal proceedings that prevent me from setting the record straight at this stage.
“What I can say is that the voice messages that are being released are manipulated; edited and taken entirely out of context.
“Even so, I will have said things that are untrue and I did not believe – but I did so to protect my family and myself from serious harm and in the face of significant threats.”
The scandal erupted last week when the messages appeared on an Instagram account with a woman’s voice discussing one of Collins’ victims, Sophie Hall, entering a beauty pageant.
‘I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, the silly b***h has made a dress… A papier mache dress out of the newspaper cuttings from the event,’ the woman says.
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