“I’m actually going to need to stop for a second,” ABC weather presenter Nate Byrne told News Breakfast viewers this morning.
“Some of you may know that I occasionally get affected by some panic attacks, and actually that’s happening right now.
“Lisa, maybe I could hand back to you?”
With that, ABC host Lisa Millar took Byrne’s lead and calmly explained to viewers that Byrne has experienced panic attacks before, including during live television.
“Nate wrote a great piece on the ABC online website about this and I reckon we might re-up it, put it on our socials, so you can have a bit of a read because it’s fantastic that he has been so open and transparent about it,” Millar said.
“The response when he first wrote about it and spoke about it was that everyone said, ‘Oh thank god, Nate’s not perfect, we thought he was perfect, but actually he’s now sharing something.’”
Byrne later returned to the host set to give viewers an update on his condition.
“Sorry if I gave anybody a bit of a scare,” he said.
“You’ve been very honest before about getting panic attacks on air and it’s great for people to know that it can happen to anyone,” Millar acknowledged.
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