Gemma Collins confronts her mum over why she didn't address her self-harm
17.02.2022 - 03:35
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Gemma Collins confronted her mum Joan in her new documentary Gemma Collins: Self-Harm and Me on Wednesday night as she asked why she didn't address her self-harming when she was younger. The powerful show charted Gemma's, 41, 20-year battle with self-harm and shared a side to the The Only Way Is Essex star that the public are yet to see. During the hard-hitting documentary, Gemma had a heartfelt and honest conversation with her mum as she asked: "But what's more important, life being busy or your daughter hurting herself?" Earlier in the documentary, Gemma and her mum had a heartfelt chat while looking through old photographs from when Gemma was young.
Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter. The duo then spoke openly about Gemma’s experience with self-harm, as Gemma asked her mum: "Did you not want to get help?" To which Joan replied: "Well, no, because you’re my daughter and my eyes are on you the whole time. We didn’t talk about it because I didn’t want to make a big thing about it, so we totally just carried on as normal and forgot about it basically.That’s how I dealt with it.
"It was just like don’t bring attention to it. She’ll get over it. But obviously I had my eyes on you if something did happen or you went weird or whatever, but you didn’t." Gemma then assured her mum that it wasn’t her fault as Joan struggled to understand why her daughter did it.
Speaking in a VT, the reality star said: "My mum just can’t really go there, you know.That really is a generational thing. "She’s happy to look at pictures of me in my dancing outfits and my tap shoes and talk about when we used to go to London for nice days out. Because it’s painful for my mum.
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