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Lorraine Kelly opens up about the trauma from witnessing horrific scenes while reporting on the Lockerbie tragedy in 1988

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00:00Just the smell of the fuel, any aviation fuel.
00:03It does bring it back.
00:04Brings back those memories, doesn't it?
00:07It does. It really does. It's really bizarre.
00:09I don't feel that I was traumatised in that sense in any way.
00:12I mean, I was only reporting on it.
00:14I was just bearing witness, if you like.
00:16But the trouble is, something like that does stay with you.
00:19Gillian that I spoke to, she's a midwife now,
00:21she was only eight when it happened.
00:23And it was years later, when she was a mother and she was working,
00:26that she actually was diagnosed with PTSD.
00:28And people have been diagnosed with that.
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