Amanda Abbington: Strictly left me traumatised… so I stop

BBC bosses have been left baffled by Amanda Abbington‘s request for footage of her Strictly rehearsals – after she claimed her time on the present left her struggling PTSD.

The 51-year-old former contestant made a sudden departure from the final 12 months’s collection, citing ‘private causes’.

It was reported she had stop after clashing along with her dance accomplice Giovanni Pernice, 33 – however she dismissed claims of a fallout on the time.

But now Ms Abbington is alleged to need to overview the recordings of their time collectively as she seeks authorized recommendation over the dancer’s alleged behaviour in the direction of her, believing video footage may ‘again up’ her claims.

Sources on the BBC are able to combat the Sherlock actress over her claims that the present had traumatised her, saying that – on the time – she instructed them she was quitting as a result of a unique medical cause.

A supply instructed the Mail: ‘Amanda’s cause for quitting Strictly was a wholly totally different one to her PTSD.

‘She instructed manufacturing of a very totally different medical situation and so they [were] vastly supportive of her and did all they might to assist.

‘Nobody appears to fairly perceive what’s going on right here.’

Abbington and Pernice throughout their look on the reside present on Saturday for BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing final 12 months, earlier than the previous contestant left all of the sudden

Amanda Abbington and Giovanni Pernice rehearsing final 12 months. The Sherlock star now says she left as a result of PTSD and has demanded footage of her rehearsals

It is known that the primary BBC chiefs knew about her PTSD was late final 12 months once they acquired a request for the tapes.

There is added confusion as a result of Ms Abbington shortly shot down options – made earlier than the present aired in September – that she and Pernice had fallen out.

On Instagram, she dismissed the claims as ‘bulls****’ and instructed folks to, ‘Shut up, it is b******s.’

During broadcasts, she and Pernice – who has labored on the present since 2015 – had been seen hugging and showing to be associates. 

One Strictly supply stated: ‘All you’d see on the studio had been the pair of them hugging and kissing.’

Ms Abbington left the present throughout week 5 in October. It has reportedly taken months for her to get better from her time on the programme and she or he has apparently wanted remedy following the ‘behaviour she was uncovered to’.

A supply instructed The Sun: ‘Everyone else was having a wonderful time however she was actually burdened by having to spend eight hours a day with Giovanni. She spent plenty of time crying and could not sleep or eat correctly.’ 

The companions had been stated to have been at loggerheads for weeks throughout rehearsals, with the actress ‘left shaken’ by the skilled dancer’s ‘militant and aggressive’ coaching type.

Known to be a ‘perfectionist’, it isn’t the primary time Pernice has had points along with his movie star companions. In 2016, TV presenter Laura Whitmore stated: ‘I’m nonetheless not prepared to speak in-depth about my expertise on the present.

‘I used to be positioned with a dance accomplice I used to be extraordinarily uncomfortable with and ultimately I felt damaged, I cried day-after-day. And I used to be actually damaged, each mentally and bodily, by the top.’

Strictly Come Dancing star Amanda Abbington has reportedly demanded bosses hand over footage of her rehearsals with Giovanni Pernice after they clashed whereas working collectively

Amanda reposted a fan’s touch upon her Instagram tales. The Strictly viewer stated: ‘I used to be really distraught along with her sudden departure from the present’ 

In 2020, Pernice fell out with Good Morning Britain presenter Ranvir Singh as she admitted to having a ‘complete meltdown’ in rehearsals with him. 

The ITV presenter instructed her co-star Kate Garraway that she and the dancer had a ’20-minute divorce’ as issues grew to become tense in coaching.

She stated gruelling rehearsals pushed her to stroll out and take a while to assemble herself after Pernice ‘put me in my place’.

Ms Abbington has been contacted for remark. Pernice declined to remark.