Piers Morgan has shared private messages from Caroline Flack sent to him during a Twitter row with Jameela Jamil. He posted the screenshots in a bid to discredit Jamil's online anti-bullying campaign. Jamil has since responded saying that she was friends with Caroline and that ‘she would be disgusted her personal messages were shared and weaponized against a woman.’
Tweeting his criticism of Jamil last night, Morgan stated ‘Jameela Jamil is having a lot to say about online harassment, so in the interests of balance, here is a message Caroline Flack sent me last October after the same Jameela Jamil led an online pile-on against her regarding a new TV show she was doing.’
Accompanying the tweet with a picture of his Instagram DMs, Morgan shared messages from Flack, sent to him in October 2019, where she says ‘Please have pictures... I’m struggling with Jameela... The hate she aims at me.’
At the time, Jamil had criticised Channel 4’s upcoming – but since cancelled – show The Surjury, which revolved around people pitching their reasons for wanting plastic surgery to a jury in order to win a free operation. She has also criticised Love Island for its lack of diversity in the past.
In response, Jamil reiterated that she never personally attacked Caroline – who she insists was her friend - and rather the premise and casting choice of the shows themselves, saying ‘friends disagree’.
‘I simply said I found the show “surjury” (not her) problematic for kids to watch,’ Jamil replied to Morgan. ‘And that love island needed some more diversity. Both times Caroline instigated debate with ME even though I was not targeting or blaming her at all. I always just politely explained my point. [sic]'
Responding to other Twitter users, Jamil stated Caroline ‘would jump in without me ever calling her out. Then if I explained my point the papers would say I attacked her. When I never instigated any contact. Any beef I had with Caroline specifically I would have just privately texted her.’
Reiterating that she and Caroline ‘were fine’ after their disagreement online, Jamil turned to Morgan, calling him ‘the most dangerous person on the internet’.
‘Piers using a dead woman who I was friends with, as a weapon to try to create further harassment for me as I’ve JUST explained publicly that last week I felt suicidal is why he is this industry’s most problematic,’ she said.
Last week, Jamil released a public statement regarding the wave of people criticising her for allegedly lying about her chronic health conditions. She said ‘Last week triggered me to a point of near death. I have a fragile past with suicide. If you line in pain and have to survive a lot, just to still be here, its agonizing to have people tell you that you made it up.’
Morgan has continued to attack Jamil since her reply, stating ‘if you genuinely believe Jameela Jamil is in mental distress, perhaps you should to tell her to get off social media where she continues to spew disingenuous abuse about people.’
However, Jamil had already explained she wouldn’t respond further. ‘Out of respect for Caroline, I will not allow this conversation to carry on in which she can’t respond or speak for herself,’ she tweeted. ‘She would be disgusted her personal messages were shared and weaponized against a woman, by a bullying parasite she thought was her friend. I’m out. ✌🏽'
She added: ‘To sell your dead friends private messages for clicks is a low I’ve never imagined anyone capable of.’
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