After Kim Woodburn verbally attacked Nicola McLean on Loose Women yesterday - saying "Nicola had a gob that was so disgusting it needed stitching up" – Nicola took to Twitter to share her upset and anger that their CBB feuding has continued outside the house.
Now, Nicola McLean is finally getting the chance to share her side of the story, and has EXCLUSIVELY written for Closer Online, explaining how Kim’s actions in the CBB house affected her physical and mental health, and why she hopes to never see Kim Woodburn again.
Celebrity Big Brother finished a month ago and Kim Woodburn is still talking rubbish about me. It was bad enough that I had to put up with her attacking me for three weeks, but to turn on my TV yesterday and see her lying about me on Loose Women made me furious. I am so grateful to Andrea McLean for stepping in to correct Kim’s lies.
I knew nothing about Kim prior to CBB apart from that she was the blonde woman from a cleaning show. She had had two weeks to watch me on CBB and research me; she came in fully armed to destroy me, I have to admit that she did a bloody good job. I have always been open about my mental health issues, my eating disorders, my marriage and that my two son’s are my entire world. Kim used every single one of those things against me, and knew exactly what she was doing.
I tolerated Kim attacking for me six days before I finally snapped, but I had no idea why she hated me so much. It was only in the last week of CBB that I found out that she didn’t like me because on her first night in the house when she was shouting at Chloe (for splashing her the tiniest little bit when she jumped in the pool) that I stepped in to be the peace maker and got them to make up to stop Kim from being horrible to Chloe. Literally, that was it! She took offence at me stopping her from getting into a big row on her first night, absolutely nuts!
Straight after my exit interview on the night that I left the CBB house I was told about Kim’s past, and the next morning I explained to the press that I had no prior knowledge of Kim’s life and I wholeheartedly apologised to her publicly for anything I had said to her that would cause her pain from her past and I meant it. She actually did a nice tweet about me saying that I didn’t know what I had said and that everyone says things in anger. I thought we had drawn a line under it and knowing that I never had to see her again I was ready to move on.
When I agreed to do Celebrity Big Brother the second time around, I went in there to have a nice time and get along with everyone. I suffer with severe anxiety but I had managed to come off of my medication a few months before CBB started and felt ready to face anything, but I wasn’t mentally prepared for Kim Woodburn! How could I have known the horror that I would have to live with and the weeks of hell that she would cause me?
What viewers didn’t see is that because of Kim’s constant verbal attacks I had to be put on a high dosage of anxiety medication by the CBB doctor. I had to have three ECG’s done in the house because my blood pressure was dangerously high (150/100), and that was all because of Kim. She was affecting my physical health and my mental health and she even kept mocking me by screaming at me until I would get into an emotional state and then laugh and say, “Go on, run to the doctor again.”
I don’t know what she wants from me, why on earth is she is doing this? She is like the people who bully via social media when they cant get directly to the person they want to pick on, but she is doing it via the press instead. She just can’t let it go, she has it in for me and is just continuing to be a bully from a distance. I was bullied so badly as a child that I felt suicidal, and I want to make a public request for Kim Woodburn to leave me alone.
I knew we would never be best friends, but having shared an experience like CBB and also both having tragically lost babies, at first I did wonder if we might eventually form some kind of weird bond outside of the house - but that will never happen now. I will never be her friend and I never want to see her again in person or on TV!
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