Gail Porter has revealed she was knocked over while going down the stairs at a Tube station last week.
The Scottish TV personality, 55, took to Instagram on Thursday to share a snap of her bruised face after the fall saw her suffer a black eye and cut lip.
Explaining that she had been trolled for her appearance and ‘looking old,’ Gail said her injuries were a result of her being knocked over by a fellow passenger.
She penned: ‘So … to all you wonderful keyboard warriors that said I’m looking old, and saying something was wrong with my face…
‘I went to @trainspottingthemusical to support my friends that created this. Last week.. I was knocked over while going down the stairs at a London Tube Station.
‘My scars are superficial and it’s not a problem. It was an accident and it won’t stop me being me.’
Gail Porter has revealed a black eye and bruised cut lip after she was knocked down the stairs at a London tube station last week as she urged keyboard warriors to be ‘kind to her’
Explaining that she had been trolled for her appearance and ‘looking old’, Gail said her injuries were a result of her being knocked over by a fellow passenger
Calling for kindness, she added: ‘Please… from the bottom of my heart.. don’t ever be disrespectful to anyone for how they look or how they are. Kindness is so invaluable x.’
Taking to the comments, fans and friends rushed to send her their support and love.
Despite the accident, Gail appeared in great spirits as she attended the press night for Trainspotting The Musical on Wednesday.
Later, Gail added another selfie, writing: ‘I’m a wee Scottish Warrior. Just always look out for each other. Simple x And good concealer!!!’
Gail came to fame in the 90s, hosting shows including Top Of The Pops, and The Big Breakfast, before becoming a favourite of the lads’ mags.
But following the breakdown of her marriage to Toploader guitarist Dan Hipgrave, Gail lost her hair to alopecia in 2005 while she was away filming in the US.
She said it came out of nowhere, with her long blonde locks falling out in clumps on her pillow while she slept, along with her eyelashes and eyebrows in just four weeks.
She famously refused to wear wigs, saying she wanted to stay authentic – but job offers quickly dried up.
‘TV is a visual industry and they want you to look a certain way,’ she later told Closer. ‘The truth is I’m not pretty and I don’t have hair. I’d get work offers, but then it’d go quiet.’
The TV star previously explained on the Sacrifice and Success podcast: ‘My personality took a bit of a knock. Jobs just stopped, because you don’t look the same.
”Would you wear a wig, would you mind wearing a wig?’ No I don’t want to wear a wig. This is how it is.’
After her TV career ‘just stopped’, Gail was left homeless and without money.
‘I was going through a divorce, no money coming in,’ she explained. ‘So eventually I had nowhere to stay. It just went from bad to worse.
‘Things like, what do you do? Do I drink? I’ve got no clue whatsoever, I don’t take drugs so…’
She wrote: ‘My scars are superficial and it’s not a problem. It was an accident and it won’t stop me being me’
Despite the accident, Gail appeared in great spirits as she attended the press night for Trainspotting The Musical on Wednesday
She recalled that at one point, she also did not have enough credit on her phone to be able to get in contact with anyone.
She went on: ‘If I found a pound I was thinking, what do I do with a pound? I’ll see if I can find another one and get a mini bottle of wine from the local off license or those little ones.
‘Anything for comfort. I was freezing as well, because I was outside.’
Back in April Gail claimed that Katie Price once cruelly mocked her appearance, after she lost all her hair due to alopecia.
The presenter developed the chronic condition – which causes the immune system to attack hair follicles – out of nowhere in 2005, causing her TV work to dry up.
And she has now publicly accused TV personality Katie, 48, of making a vile comment making fun of her hair loss when introducing her to a boyfriend.
Gail made the claim in the comments of an Instagram post from Sky TV dropping the trailer for the former glamour model’s upcoming tell-all documentary, Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, according to The Sun.
She penned in the comments section: ‘The person who introduced me to one of her boyfriends and said ‘this is Gail. She used to be pretty when she had hair… Google her. Thanks.’
Her story left fans stunned, quickly amassing a number of likes and shocked replies, with one person writing: ‘That must have been awful for you. I hope you’re okay x’ while another assured: ‘So sorry she said that! You are beautiful.’
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