Roxanne Pallett believes she ‘deserved’ the backlash she received after wrongly accusing actor Ryan Thomas of punching her on Celebrity Big Brother last year.
In an appearance on Jeremy Vine on Friday, Roxanne said it was her decision to go on the show and could understand the hate she had after leaving the house.
She said: ‘It was right that I got that. It was right. I chose to go on that show. I put myself out there and I made a mistake in the public eye so I understand. I would have felt the same way.’
The former Emmerdale star also explained she had been in therapy for the past year to overcome her PTSD.
She went on: ‘I’ve had therapy for the last year and working on my PTSD. I got worse before I got better.
‘The two months that followed got a lot worse. I had to go through it.
‘It was the best worst thing to happen to me, it shook me out of the state I was in. I was a person I didn’t even like.
‘Everyone was entitled to feel and say what they felt because that was the person I was showing everybody.’
Host Jeremy Vine came to her defence, adding: ‘You have been treated as if you have killed eight people. You don’t even want to argue with [the public].
The actress replied: ‘There’s no point. Somebody told me when I came out, “The court of public opinion have ruled and they have ruled against you. The sooner you accept that the better.” I really appreciated that.’
Her latest appearance on Jeremy Vine came a year after she went on the same show to apologise to the ex Corrie star for what happened.
Roxanne has had support from people who saw her on the programme.
‘There are so many people that have reached out and said they saw themselves,’ she replied.
‘Reading those letters made me feel a bit more human. All I can do now is rebuild and be better today than I was yesterday.’
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