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A woman branded ‘a parasite’ on air by Phil Schofield has accused the shamed presenter for bullying her and encouraging an internet ‘pile-on’.

Carla Bellucci, 41, was subsequently dubbed ‘the most hated woman in Britain’ in 2019 for admitting that she had lied to doctors about suffering from depression in order to get a nose job on the NHS.

There then followed a ‘car crash interview’ on This Morning when Schofield railed at her: ‘You freely admit - happily admit - that you've milked the NHS and you have lied.

‘You've been a parasite on the NHS.’

The mother-of-four said that when Schofield told her ‘You are going to get battered on social media’ during the interview, his words were tantamount to encouraging the social medial pile-on which she was subject to.

‘I was an easy target,’ the former glamour model told MailOnline. ‘He just bullied me on air from the moment the cameras started rolling.

‘Okay, perhaps I was naïve going on there at all, but the ferocious way he just kept telling me “you’ve lied” was shocking then, and all the more so now that we know all about the lies he was telling everyone, including his own wife.

‘The man is a hypocrite, and it makes me angry to watch that clip over, even four years later. He also had the nerve to tell me that even after the £7k worth of surgery my nose was still “a bit off”.’

Carla from Hitchin, Hertfordshire, said a ‘programme counsellor’ called her after the show ‘because she was so worried’, and the programme sent her a huge bouquet of flowers with a card signed ‘from Phil and Holly’.

Internet blogger Carla, who boasts 151k followers on Instagram, had appeared in a newspaper story saying that she’d faked having depression in order to get a free nose job on the NHS.

She said she had flirted with her GP then lied to a surgeon about having depression and breathing problems in order to be given the op because she had a ‘bump’ on her nose and it slanted to one side.