Charlotte Church admits hurtful encounter with Alison Hammond ‘touched a deep wound’

Charlotte Church has admitted her viral This Morning soundbath moment with Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary actually ‘p***ed [her] right off’ and touched a ‘wound’.

In November last year The Traitors star, 39, appeared on the ITV show to do a live soundbath which left the 50-year-old presenter in fits of giggles, in a video that quickly went viral.

However, while all seemed fine on the day Charlotte sang out soothing notes over the top of a relaxing instrumental soundscape and the ITV presenters reclined on the floor, a year on and the classical singer has admitted Alison’s mischievous response actually touched a ‘deep wound’ of hers.

Talking on Elizabeth Day’s How To Fail podcast live in Bath, when asked whether Alison not being able to keep a straight face during the encounter the star made her feelings crystal clear.

‘Oh that p**sed me right off,’ she said twice, before explaining: ‘I’ve met Alison Hammond a number of times and she’s a wonderful woman. I think that part of it was a misjudgement on my part to go “let’s do a five minute sound bath on national TV. That makes loads of sense. Yeah, let’s go for it”.

‘I think it was a misjudgement on my part, but I think that what annoyed me more than anything else was that then I’m given the opportunity to display and demonstrate and represent somewhat this amazing art of sound healing or sound ceremony or however people want to describe it and then it’s made a figure of fun.

‘That really did actually touch quite a deep wound for me. I was like, “Ugh I really like you, Alison, but f*ck you”.’  

Elizabeth observed, ‘Yes, because it reminds you of all those other times that you felt you were made fun of,’ to which Charlotte replied: ‘Yeah, totally.’  

Alison apologised for her outburst after the experience, telling Charlotte, who laughed it off: ‘I’m so sorry… I feel like I was being rude. What was really throwing me was you singing! It was really making me giggle.’

Charlotte, who owns a wellbeing centre The Dreaming, in Wales, which offers a range of spiritual retreats, including sound baths, explained the importance of sound baths in her centre on the segment.

‘One of our pillars is sound and sound healing in all of its forms,’ she said.

‘Sound affects us on a cellular level and science is really starting to come to terms with the power of sound.’

‘It’s about helping people drop into a deep sense of relaxation and there are so many health benefits around it. In today’s age, it’s very difficult for people to switch off.’

Elsewhere in the interview, Charlotte revealed she’s had ‘revelatory’ plant medicine experiences, and has taken South American psychoactive substance ayahuasca.

Before touching on her This Morning appearance, Charlotte talked about feeling ‘exploited’ by the music industry, which she said was ‘terrible’.

‘There’s no two ways about it. I was not looked after. I was not nurtured. I was just totally exploited like I was a commodity,’ she reflected.

‘We [with her parents] got massively taken advantage of without a shadow of a doubt and I’ve made my peace with it now because I understand the wider context.

‘I’m a deeply politicised person and so I’m not looking at myself from a victim mindset in terms of like, “Oh poor me, this thing happened to me”.

‘I’ve worked through a lot of that stuff and I can understand the soil in which I was growing and that soil was full of sh*t.’

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