 The star was hospitalised and rehabilitated for about three months and now uses a wheelchair as a result of a spinal injury. Speaking with co-stars Janet Street-Porter, Jane Moore and Coleen Nolan on this week's first offering of Loose Women, Sophie explained how disabled people can suffer abuse from their romantic partners. "Say for example, I get into an argument with a boyfriend and they take my wheelchair away from me which would leave me stuck and dependant on them - very intimating. Sophie was just a teenager when a car accident left her needing a wheelchair ( Sophie Morgan) "Or we have a row they put things out of reach.... I got left in the sea once for hours, so there was specific abuse around the fact I had a physical disability but then there was the tolerating of certain behaviours that I tolerated because I have a disability. She continued to say: "I had internalised this message 'you're disabled it's all){kind=link}
Loose Women star Sophie Morgan discussed how abusive can manifest in relationships for disabled people, as she recalled being ‘left in the sea for hours’ when chatting on the ITV show
Sophie Morgan has recalled a shocking incident that occured in a past relationship during today’s edition of Loose Women.
Sophie gave examples of how disabled people can be vulnerable when it comes to being subjected to physical and emotional abuse and shared her own experience – telling the Loose Women audience how she was once ‘left in the sea’ for hours’ in a past relationship.
The award-winning disability advocate, 37, spoke on the ITV show ahead of her new documentary airing, in which she investigates how disabled abuse victims are being ‘let down by police’ on tonight’s installment of Dispatches on Channel 4.
Sophie was just 18 when she was involved in a car crash that left her instantly paralysed from the chest down in 2003.