Alison Hammond breaks down on live TV over Phillip Schofield bombshell interview

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Alison Hammond broke down crying on This Morning today as she and co-host Dermot O'Leary addressed Phillip Schofield's interviews last night in which he talked about his departure from ITV and his admission of an affair with a much younger colleague.

Alison, 48, cried after the morning show played clips from Phillip's interview with the BBC, saying that though she knows what Phillip did was wrong, she "still loves" her former colleague.

She said: "I’m finding this really painful. "I loved Phillip Schofield. I still love Phillip Schofield. As a family, we are really struggling to process everything.

I don’t know what to say." She fought back tears as she said: "But I remember what my mum used to say. My mum always said 'Use your Bible as a sat nav in life, Al.' And in the Bible it says he without sin, cast the first stone. "And I just don't want to, I don't want to say anything bad because obviously I'm in conflict, that's how I feel." Before the interview clips were played, Dermot said: "It’s very difficult for us to cover this story – he’s a friend and a colleague." Speaking to the BBC’s Amol Rajan in the interview aired last night, Phillip said he has “lost everything” in the wake of his affair with a younger male colleague and told of a “catastrophic effect” on his mind.The 61 year old said the fallout from the revelations had been “relentless”.