Penny Lancaster opens up on ‘painful’ personal struggle

Penny Lancaster opens up on 'painful' personal struggleSource Lorraine

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00:00From a very young age I was bullied at school for all sort of different reasons and my mum

00:05instilled in me a sort of a lesson. Yes, of course you're suffering and it's painful to go through

00:11but try to look at the other perspective. Try and look at why the person that's doing the

00:16bullying is doing it in the first place. There must be something that they're dealing with.

00:19It did help me shed a few of my concerns and look at other people's perspective and I think

00:26I've carried that throughout life and in fact being bullied has given me the tools to deal

00:29with bullies in adulthood, which we all come across. Well, you did and you came across a

00:35cracker, which you write about in the book. Michelle Moan, as people know who's in trouble

00:38right now after all the PPE scandal, but she was promoting her bra company and you had

00:43been doing some modelling for such a job. You were doing some modelling. Contracted for

00:46two years. Absolutely. With a promise of further work. Yes, indeed. And you were working together

00:50in this business. Great partnership. Absolutely. And then wham, she gets rid of you and not only

00:57did she get rid of you and bring in someone else. Someone else was Rod's ex-wife.

01:02Yeah. Yikes. It's right in the midst of while I was trying to build bridges between the

01:08relationships with my new boyfriend's ex-partners and the children. So that was a bit of a bombshell

01:14that went off there. So I had to, I just kind of buried myself with that. I thought, you

01:19know, the family here is more important than that stuff. So I let it go. Rod was not prepared

01:25to let it go. Rod was not a happy man. Well, he was coming to your defence and quite right

01:28too.