Sunday People

FERNE: I’m scared, lonely & sad

T V STAR’S HEARTACHE AS SINGLE MUM

- Halina Watts SHOWBIZ EDITOR

TELLY host Ferne McCann cradles her baby daughter and says her first Christmas as a single mum is going to be “hell”.

The ex-TOWIE star, now a presenter on This Morning, says she feels sad, lonely and scared.

She gave birth to daughter Sunday last month while her ex languished behind bars for an acid attack. In a candid interview Ferne, 27, says she “cries every day”. The admission comes after Ferne took her baby, aged just two weeks, to jail to see her dad Arthur Collins for the first and last time.

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moving forward and putting my main focus on Sunday. Thank God for her. If I didn’t have her, where would d that have left me? I would have been on my own.” Ferne was shattered when Collins, 25, was arrested for hurling acid d over 14 clubbers. After he was convicted ted of five counts of grievous bodily harm m and nine of actual bodily harm, Ferne took ok Sunday to see him at Belmarsh jail, ail, South London. She told him: “You have ave ruined our lives. This is what you have ave done. And this is what you are missing ng out on. You will never see us again.” Collins will be sentenced next week and has been told he could d get life. In the TV documentar­y, , a pregnant Ferne ne is seen going for or a scan. And she e admits: “As much ch as the scans are e lovely, sometimes mes they hit home me with how things gs could have been.” ”

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