Phillip Scofield says he is ‘afraid to leave house’ over backlash to his affair with younger man
Phillip Schofield said he is afraid to leave the house and fears being spat on in the street over the backlash to his affair with a younger male colleague he worked with on This Morning.
In the interview with The Sun, the star, 61, also told was currently getting by “hour by hour”.
It comes after the former This Morning presenter said in previous interview with the paper this week that he had “lost everything” after admitting to concealing his his affair with the man.
In a new interview he said: “I do not know a time I will be able to walk out of the door.
“I don’t have any spirit. My friends tell me, ‘It will get better’. It won’t. Not now. Not this one.”
He added: “I am getting by hour by hour. I have got my girls and my friends.”
Schofield resigned from ITV last week and was dropped by his talent agency YMU after admitting to the “unwise but not illegal” relationship.
The host previously told how he was “utterly broken and ashamed” over his actions – but denied he had “groomed” the man.
He also told how the fallout to his revelations had had a “catastrophic effect” on his mind.
Schofield also praised his daughters Ruby and Molly for “guarding him” in a separate interview with the BBC.
He said: “Last week, if my daughters hadn’t been there then I wouldn’t be here. And they’ve guarded me and won’t let me out of their sight, it’s like a weird numbness.
“I know that’s a selfish point of view. But you come to a point where you just think, how much are you supposed to take?
“If all of those people that write all that stuff, do they ever think that there’s actually a person at the other end?”
Discussing former Love Island presenter Caroline Flack, who took her own life age 40 in February 2020, he added: “I think I understand how Caroline Flack felt.
He 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.
“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.”
Flack’s mum also told in an interview with Newsnight tonight (2 June), how she thought Schofield is “realising even more” what her daughter went through before her death.
Christine Flack said she hoped the former ITV presenter had “done the right thing” by admitting to his secret affair with a younger male colleague and that the matter would be settled.
A coroner ruled Flack killed herself after learning that prosecutors were going to press ahead with an assault charge after an incident involving her boyfriend Lewis Burton.
Additional reporting by Press Association.
