TV presenter and Loose Women star Sophie Morgan discussed the theft whilst speaking on a podcast, and shared that she would have to wait weeks for a replacement Blue Badge issued
Loose Women TV presenter Sophie Morgan has been left raging after her Blue Badge in her car was stolen.
The model and TV star told the BBC’s disability podcast Access All that her car was broken into whilst she was away working in America earlier this month.
Sophie, who appears regularly on ITV’s Loose Women, uses a wheelchair after sustaining injuries during a road traffic accident in 2003 at the age of 18. The blonde star is paralysed from the chest down.
Speaking on the podcast 38-year-old disability advocate and paraplegic Sophie revealed: “I literally can’t describe how disabling this is.”
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She told podcast listeners: “I had this rage in me at the injustice, all the frustration, the inconvenience, all of those feelings.
“I can’t drive my car without my badge as I can’t get in or out [of the vehicle] without space to get my wheelchair beside my car.
“And without the guarantee of a disabled space, it’s not worth the risk.”
Blue Badges are issued by local councils and allow the holders to get free or longer parking as well as using disabled spaces.
Last month, Sophie revealed she’s been in trauma therapy after writing a book about her life since her crash at 18.
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She described writing her memoir Driving Forwards as hugely cathartic, which led her to begin a course of trauma therapy.
That accident was in 2003, when Sophie was just 18 and had picked up her A-level results from her boarding school, Gordonstoun, in Scotland.
Driving four friends home in her car, she veered off the road and ended up trapped beneath it, suffering severe injuries that left her paralysed from the chest down.
Sophie revealed: “I have post traumatic stress disorder from all the things that have happened to me.
“And as much as I have coped very well, there are a huge number of issues that I need to work through since my car crash.”
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