Kerry Katona hits back at trolls by recreating THAT troubling This Morning interview from 2008

Kerry Katona has used her troubling appearance on This Morning in 2008 as a way to call out trolls who ‘take the p**s out of people’s mental health illnesses’.

The reality personality, 39, featured on the ITV magazine show 12 years ago, when she slurred her way through an interview, leading to much concern for her well-being.

It was eventually revealed that she was suffering side-effects of her bipolar medicine, and that she was battling an addiction to drugs – despite her insisting during the live interview that she was ‘absolutely fine’.

12 years ago: The reality personality featured on the ITV magazine show when she slurred her way through an interview, leading to much concern for her well-being

Mocking: Kerry Katona has used her troubling appearance on This Morning in 2008 as a way to call out trolls who ‘take the p**s out of people’s mental health illnesses’

Taking to TikTok on Tuesday, Kerry posted a video of herself mimicking her behaviour while clutching a bottle of champagne.

She mouthed along to the audio from the This Morning appearance, with her slurring: ‘Absolutely fine, I’ve literally just got here! Woke up this morning and literally just got here. Fine – never been happier, I swear to God!’

In the interview she was questioned by then-hosts Fern Britton and Philip Schofield about her behaviour, in which she insisted she was perfectly well.

She captioned the TikTok spoof: ‘Soooo apparently it’s okay to take the piss out of people‘s mental health illnesses…. well if you can’t beat them join them! #ownit #past #moveon #bekind’

Making a point: Taking to TikTok on Tuesday, Kerry posted a video of herself mimicking her behaviour while clutching a bottle of champagne

Making a point: Taking to TikTok on Tuesday, Kerry posted a video of herself mimicking her behaviour while clutching a bottle of champagne

She mouthed along to the audio from the This Morning appearance, with her slurring: 'Absolutely fine, I've literally just got here! Woke up this morning and literally just got here. Fine - never been happier, I swear to God!'

She mouthed along to the audio from the This Morning appearance, with her slurring: ‘Absolutely fine, I’ve literally just got here! Woke up this morning and literally just got here. Fine – never been happier, I swear to God!’

The latter hashtag – #bekind – came to prominence earlier this year when presenter Caroline Flack took her own life.

It appeared that Kerry was hitting out at trolls who have seemingly recently been making fun of her – although the specifics of this wasn’t explained.

Back in January, she mocked the infamous appearance again, this time in a more humorous vain.

She took to Instagram to share a snap from the dentist after having her ‘dirty rotten teeth taken out’ and likened her groggy-eyed expression to her drug-induced appearance 12 years ago. 

Car-crash TV: It was eventually revealed that she was suffering side-effects of her bipolar medicine, and that she was battling an addiction to drugs - despite her insisting during the live interview that she was 'absolutely fine'

Car-crash TV: It was eventually revealed that she was suffering side-effects of her bipolar medicine, and that she was battling an addiction to drugs – despite her insisting during the live interview that she was ‘absolutely fine’

Looking back: Back in January, she mocked the infamous appearance again, this time in a more humorous vain

Looking back: Back in January, she mocked the infamous appearance again, this time in a more humorous vain

Kerry detailed her dental treatment to her 555,000 Instagram followers as she revealed she was having teeth extracted. 

Sharing the shot when she had just come around for the procedure, she wrote: ‘So this is me after having my dirty rotten teeth taken out yesterday! everytime I look at this pic I just p**s myself laughing!!!! Don’t think they knew what to do with me’.

She then seemed to see an even funnier take on image as she wrote: ‘Some things never change if you can’t laugh at yourself what can you do! thought I’d get there first!!!! after being sedated @the.sandford fun times’. 

Kerry has proudly boasted of her life overhaul since the interview during which she was slurring and appeared out of sorts. During the chat, Phillip asked: ‘If I’m honest you don’t seem right to me. You’re speech is slurred. How are you feeling?’

Groggy: She took to Instagram to share a snap from the dentist after having her 'dirty rotten teeth taken out' and likened her groggy-eyed expression to her drug-induced appearance 12 years ago

Groggy: She took to Instagram to share a snap from the dentist after having her ‘dirty rotten teeth taken out’ and likened her groggy-eyed expression to her drug-induced appearance 12 years ago

Kerry, who was married to Mark Croft at the time, replied: ‘I’m on medication at night time. This is going to be made as a huge publicity thing,’ as Phil added: ‘I am merely pointing out what people are thinking who are watching.’

Fern, who presented the show at the time, asked about a recent magazine photo shoot. She said: ‘The interview did say you’d only go in the early hours of the morning, you’d had quite a bit to drink…

‘It said you went to get ready with a bottle of champagne. They wanted you to jump in the pool and you were tempted after they said you’d have a shot afterwards.’

In 2010, Kerry reflected on the car-crash interview, saying: ‘That wasn’t me back then. I was in a very dark dark place, I was on a lot of heavy medication, I was in a very unhappy marriage, and I was taking drugs.’

She said that her behaviour was down to her Bipolar medication: ‘I was on 350mg of chlorpromazine, which I took at quarter to twelve the night before, and every morning my speech would be very slur, and it’d wear off in the afternoon.’

Asked previously if she had looked back on the interview in full, she said: ‘No. I’m too embarrassed and ashamed. It’s mortifying. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people around me. I’ve moved away…

A month later: Kerry and Mark split up. A police investigation into how the couple spent £10m in their five years together was launched (pictured in February 2008)

A month later: Kerry and Mark split up. A police investigation into how the couple spent £10m in their five years together was launched (pictured in February 2008)

‘I wasn’t a good person then. And it’s hard to watch it back, it’s hard, oh my God [to think that] my kids are going to have to watch this when they grow up.’

While she discussed the interview with Phillip and Holly Willoughby two years later, Holly asked: ‘But when you see the clips, can you understand why Phil and Fern would’ve asked those questions?’ 

Kerry responded: ‘Yes, completely. I completely understand, you have to remember I was in complete denial of my life at that point.

‘I was in a wrong marriage, with the wrong person, [but] I’m not going to blame anybody else for my doings – I hold my hands up and take complete responsibility. Nobody forced me to do anything.

‘But when you’re in a marriage like that or relationship or surrounded by people… until you find strength to get out of what you’re in, there’s not a lot you can do.’

Shocking: Kerry was caught in an infamous 2009 News of the World video in which she was seen snorting cocaine (pictured in a promo for her 2005 reality show My Fair Kerry)

Shocking: Kerry was caught in an infamous 2009 News of the World video in which she was seen snorting cocaine (pictured in a promo for her 2005 reality show My Fair Kerry)

Kerry continued: ‘I shouldn’t have done the interview – but I’m glad I have done because it’s changed me. That interview, the News of the World video… it’s all changed me. It gave me a massive wake up call.’

Kerry was referring to the infamous 2009 News of the World video that she admits did indeed show her snorting cocaine.

She said: ‘Yes. Yes, I was. I hold my hands up. And if I hadn’t of done any of those things, the situation I was in, the people I was surrounded by, I had nobody to help me – these were my friends and family – and I had no one to help me.

‘I was made bankrupt. I’d been dropped by Iceland. It was spiralling out of control and I started taking more and more drugs.’

Heartache: 'I was made bankrupt. I'd been dropped by Iceland. It was spiralling out of control and I started taking more and more drugs,' she explained

Heartache: ‘I was made bankrupt. I’d been dropped by Iceland. It was spiralling out of control and I started taking more and more drugs,’ she explained