Naga Munchetty warns some listeners to 'turn down' volume
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Each week on her BBC Radio 5 Live show, Naga Munchetty, 46, speaks to a guest who has a “pretty cool” story to tell, and this week she was joined by a lady called Mandy Ogunmokun, who founded the Treasure Foundation in 2009. Her organisation helps women with a history of substance abuse and offending to rebuild their lives, but before their conversation began, the host sent out a warning to listeners that the content might be a bit too much for younger listeners.
Maybe you may just want to turn us down a bit, or get young ears to leave the room
Naga Munchetty
Introducing her guest to the show, Naga told her audience of her backstory, saying: “Mandy was motivated to make such a big difference to others because of her own life experience,” before revealing she had spent two decades of her life in and out of Holloway prison, overcame a childhood of abuse and a heroin addiction in order to turn her life around and help others do the same.
But she quickly added: “What I want to do is warn you who are listening today, if there are any young ears around.”
“Some of the content in our conversation may be of a sexual and violent nature as Mandy explains where she comes from to where she is now.
“So maybe you may just want to turn us down a bit, or get young ears to leave the room,” she advised.
“Whatever makes you feel comfortable!”
Mandy went on to discuss her difficult upbringing, which eventually led to her having children of her own who then became addicted to drugs and taken into care, something she admitted “broke her to pieces”.
After getting emotional talking about other women also being separated from their kids, Mandy apologised for choking up on air.
“Don’t be sorry,” Naga sympathised.
“I’m going to say the impression I have is that you are a women who has experienced this pain and you are using your knowledge of it to make sure people are helped.
“You are passionate about it and are changing lives, so for that I will say thank you and good luck.”
Elsewhere, Naga hit out at a troll who branded her a “poisonous person” on Twitter, but she did so in a very “intelligent” way.
The BBC star is no stranger to receiving cruel messages online, but she knows how to handle trolls and the number one rule is to not give them a rise.
In a now deleted tweet, someone else replied to it branding the BBC Breakfast star as “poisonous”.
The disgruntled viewer retorted: “Quite frankly, I’d rather someone take a cheese grater to my b***end than go near that poisonous person.”
Other fans took to the comments section to defend Naga, with one asking: “How is she poisonous?”
“A curious comment in so many ways. Hate is an odd emotion,” another added.
A third snapped: “Naga is gorgeous and intelligent. Win double.”
“Nasty comment from someone by the look of should know better,” someone else said.
But Naga had her own way of dealing with things, and that was by sarcastically thanking the viewer for watching her on the telly.
She simply replied: “Happy to help,” as others commended her “intelligent” response and ability to rise above the nastiness, hoping she was OK.
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