ITV Loose Women star Sophie Morgan chokes back tears over life-changing accident

ITV Loose Women star Sophie Morgan has broken down in tears after recalling a life-changing accident on today's show. The panelist was on the show on Monday afternoon.

The 37 year old sustained a T6 spinal cord injury in a road traffic accident in 2003, resulting in paralysis from the chest down. Choking back tears, Sophie explained: "This is me six months before the accident that paralysed me."

She added: "It's looking back at this image of my little self and thinking right, if I could go back and tell her in six months time, you’re going to go to collect your A level results and after that party you’re going to go back to another party and in that journey, you’re going to lose control of your car.

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"You’re going to crash and you’re going to be paralysed from the waist down and you’re never going to walk again." Her mum Carol said: "Sophie was in a real mess, she had an oxygen mask on her face. Tom, my son, and my husband we went in, I said 'what a mess' and she said 'I'm really sorry mum'. There have been some dark times, when I see you struggling, of course, like any mum, you want to change that."

"We [family] all did our own thing because Tom [15 at the time] went back to school because that was the best place for him. He had a really good support system... John went back to work, because that's what men do, and I stayed with Sophie. When you're in the eye of the storm, you don't have time for grief, it's an indulgence.... But I really felt that my job was to step up and be there. If I fall apart, or she sees that I've fallen apart, that's not good."

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