The Apprentice star Amy Anzel on not being invited to celebration finale - she says she sought therapy after show left her feeling depressed
25.03.2022 - 00:39
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Amy Anzel has slammed her experience on the BBC's The Apprentice, saying she sought therapy after suffering from anxiety and depression after she was fired from the business competition.
The American entrepreneur was shown the door by Lord Alan Sugar in week six of the contest, which has seen 16 candidates battle it out to win £250,000-worth of investment from the business magnate. She claims she was left baffled after Lord Sugar took a dig at her not becoming a project manager during her time on the show, despite being sub team leader in four out of six tasks, and says she believes she didn't get a fair chance.
Lord Sugar referenced how New Yorker Amy had lived in Los Angeles and asked her if she was an 'LA Dodger'. He sniped: "You dodged the project management side of things, you've been here six weeks to show that you can do something, and you haven't shown me you can do something. And so it is with regret that you're fired. Thank you."
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A distraught Amy claims scenes showing her pleading in the boardroom to stay in the competition were edited out. And she says she sought the help of a therapist after her time on the show after struggling to cope.
"I was totally shocked," she told the Manchester Evening News.
"He didn't give me a chance. People told me afterwards 'if only you'd asked him for a chance'. But I did.
"I said 'please, I'm begging you'. I put myself up for team leader in week two and I was sub team leader in four out of six tasks. I was depressed and I was confused and wondering 'what have I done wrong?'
"I just couldn't make sense of that firing and I couldn't seem to accept it so I went to a