The Celebrity Traitors star opened up about her experience on the ITV breakfast show last year as she said Alison Hammond touched a ‘deep wound’ of hers.
Charlotte Church(Image: Kate Green/Getty Images)
Charlotte Church has opened up about her viral This Morning soundbath moment with Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary, admitting that the 50-year-old presenter actually ‘p***ed her right off’ and touched a ‘wound’. The Celebrity Traitors star, 39, appeared on the ITV show last November to do a live soundbath which left Hammond in fits of laughter, in a video that quickly became a hit online.
Charlotte appeared to be unfazed by the hysterical reaction while she sang out soothing notes over the top of a relaxing instrumental soundscape and the ITV presenters reclined on the floor. However, a year on, the classical singer has confessed that Alison’s response actually touched a ‘deep wound’ of hers.
Talking on Elizabeth Day’s How To Fail podcast live in Bath, when asked about Alison not being able to keep a straight face during the encounter, the BBC star made her feelings on the situation crystal clear, the Metro reports. She said: “Oh that p**sed me right off. I’ve met Alison Hammond a number of times and she’s a wonderful woman.
Charlotte Church said Alison Hammond’s reaction to her sound bath on This Morning last year hurt her feelings(Image: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
“I think that part of it was a misjudgement on my part to go “let’s do a five minute sound bath on national TV. That makes loads of sense. Yeah, let’s go for it”.
She continued: “I think it was a misjudgement on my part, but I think that what annoyed me more than anything else was that then I’m given the opportunity to display and demonstrate and represent somewhat this amazing art of sound healing or sound ceremony or however people want to describe it and then it’s made a figure of fun.
“That really did actually touch quite a deep wound for me. I was like, “Ugh I really like you, Alison, but f*ck you”.’
Elizabeth empathised: “Yes, because it reminds you of all those other times that you felt you were made fun of,’ to which Charlotte replied: ‘Yeah, totally.’”
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Alison apologised to Charlotte for her outburst after the experience, saying: “I’m so sorry… I feel like I was being rude. What was really throwing me was you singing! It was really making me giggle.”
Charlotte owns a wellbeing centre called The Dreaming, in Wales which offers a range of spiritual retreats, including sound baths.
She explained the importance of sound baths in her centre on the segment.
Charlotte said: “One of our pillars is sound and sound healing in all of its forms.
Alison hit the giggles(Image: : Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
“Sound affects us on a cellular level and science is really starting to come to terms with the power of sound.
“It’s about helping people drop into a deep sense of relaxation and there are so many health benefits around it. In today’s age, it’s very difficult for people to switch off.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Charlotte revealed she’s had ‘revelatory’ plant medicine experiences, and has taken South American psychoactive substance ayahuasca.
She also addressed how she felt ‘exploited’ by the music industry, which she said was ‘terrible’.
Charlotte reflected: “There’s no two ways about it. I was not looked after. I was not nurtured. I was just totally exploited like I was a commodity.
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“We [with her parents] got massively taken advantage of without a shadow of a doubt and I’ve made my peace with it now because I understand the wider context.
“I’m a deeply politicised person and so I’m not looking at myself from a victim mindset in terms of like, “Oh poor me, this thing happened to me”.
“I’ve worked through a lot of that stuff and I can understand the soil in which I was growing and that soil was full of sh*t.”
