Loose Woman’s Nadia Sawalha reveals she once stormed off production ‘raging’ over ‘bullying and horrible’ actress-Ruth Lawes-Entertainment – Metro

Loose Women’s Nadia Sawalha has opened up about a difficult former co-star that left her furious and threatening to leave the production.

The 58-year-old soared to fame as Annie Palmer in the BBC’s long-running soap EastEnders after beginning her showbiz career in theatre.

Nadia’s other on-screen acting credits include Benidorm, Station Jim, Casualty and The Bill, while her younger sister Julia Sawalha, 54, is best known for playing Saffy in Absolutely Fabulous.

The TV personality then went on to appear as a presenter for the likes of Celebrity Driving School and Junior MasterChef and as a contestant in reality shows including Celebrity Big Brother and The Celebrity Circle.

Nadia appeared on Thursday’s Loose Women, alongside Carol McGiffin, Charlene White and Judi Love, where she spoke about a nasty encounter with an actress during a theatre performance.

Describing her co-star as ‘rude, bullying to people and horrible’, Nadia explained: ‘Everyone was putting up with her and nobody was saying anything and it was just one of those because she was a bit more famous than everyone – so you’re not supposed to say anything to them.

Nadia spoke about her experience of the production on Loose Women (Picture: ITV)

‘So anyway, so we were in rehearsals one day and she just said something so rude to somebody else and I jumped up and for some reason, I took my jumper off,’ Nadia continued, as the audience and panel burst into laughter.

Detailing the chaos, the host added: ‘I stormed off down the corridor, I was trying to get my jumper off, and the director is running after me, and he was lovely, the director was lovely.’

Nadia then went into her dressing room and began packing everything into her bag, saying she’d had enough and ‘can’t do it anymore.’

Nadia threatened to leave the production because of her intolerable co-star (Picture: ITV)

‘I stormed off down the alleyway and this really lovely girl, a young dresser, and it was early, it was like 10.30am, was like, “Are you alright Nads? What are you doing?”

An angry Nadia replied she was going to the pub, with the dresser gently coaxing her back, reminding her it was a big rehearsal.

However, Nadia said the actress, who she refused to name, had pushed her ‘too far’, but the young crew member had some sage advice.

Nadia refused to name the actress in question (Picture: WireImage)

‘Don’t let her do that,’ she advised Nadia. ‘Turn around. Go back. Because then she has won.’

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The panelist did decide to return back to the rehearsal and chuckled as she remembered she had stuffed the entire contents of her dressing room into her bag, including a TV remote, likening it to leaving a boyfriend.

Loose Women airs weekdays from 12.30pm on ITV.

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