Sarah Ferguson has released excerpts from her new reality TV show which show her sobbing uncontrollably and claiming she will “die” if she fails to “find herself”.
The Duchess of York, 51, showed clips from her new six-part series Finding Sarah on US talk show The View earlier this week.
The show, which will air on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network next week, sees the troubled duchess working with TV psychiatrist Dr Phil McGraw and a financial advisor to try to overcome her psychological and money problems.
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In one excerpt, Sarah bursts into tears when she recalls how the British media have treated her.
“The press turned on me,” she says. “That’s when they said I was a bad mother. ‘Bad Fergie’ sold papers. It’s never stopped since then.
“Then they started calling me ‘Duchess of Pork’ and ‘Fat, frumpy Fergie’. Stupidly, I believed it, so the self-sabotage kicked in.”
“After 25 years in the public life, I’ve lost who I really am and this torments me. I hope that I’m going to start to live, to see if I really will find Sarah. I’ve got to do this, otherwise I will die.”
Sarah has also promoted her new show on Good Morning America and The Today Show. In both appearances she says her ex-husband Prince Andrew and their daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie are extremely proud of her new show and her efforts to improve herself.
“I’m moving forward,” she told The Today Show. “My girls are proud of me, Andrew’s proud of me and I’m very proud of that.
“My girls learn from my mistakes, and look at how they are — it’s so exciting to see them confident and strong. I’m really so proud that Andrew and I are really a team together and we are completely unified, with the girls.”
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Sarah has been embroiled in several scandals in the past decade, most recently being filmed attempting to sell access to Prince Andrew for a substantial sum of money.
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