Aussie Radio: Mel Greig Says She Was Sent Bullets

Mel Greig

Australian Radio personality Mel Greig has attacked those who bullied her after 2DayFM’s infamous 2012 prank phone call to the hospital treating Kate Middleton and declared “trolling needs to stop”, she told newscom.au.

Greig, who apologized for the hoax after last month’s inquest into the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha, said the backlash was hypocritical because the people accusing her of being a bully themselves acted like bullies.

The radio host, who is in Britain on a speaking tour, told BBC’s Newsnight: “The trolling and the death threats were disgusting.”

Greig, who posed as the Queen when the Duchess of Cambridge was being treated for morning sickness, said the worst moment was when her mother was threatened.

Indian-born Saldanha answered the prank phone call from Greig and co-host Michael Christian and, believing it to be genuine, put the DJs through to Kate’s ward.

Days later the nurse took her own life.

Greig says she will always feel partly responsible.

“Nothing will change the fact that Jacintha thought of me before she took her own life and that is something that is really hard to come to terms with.”