TV host praised for taking a break after stopping mid-sentence during a severe hot flash: ‘Thank you for your authenticity’
A guest host appearing on a morning show in Australia has been praised after she stopped mid-sentence to confess that she was having a severe hot flash.
Imogen Crump, an editor at the University of Melbourne’s Pursuit and Research news website, was discussing the day’s headlines on ABC’s “News Breakfast” on Wednesday when she suddenly stopped.
“I’m so sorry, I could keep stumbling through, but I’m having such a perimenopausal hot flash right now, live on air, sorry,” Crump said.
Host Lisa Millar immediately praised Crump for her honesty.
“We need to make it normal to have these kinds of conversations and I love you for even saying it, because we interview people, we talk to people about this and this is the reality,” Millar said.
Crump then tried to cool herself down by fanning her face with her hands and replied: “I don’t think hormones respect national television.”
Co-host Michael Rowland then told Crump that she could “take a breather” to cool herself down and the rest of the panel resumed their discussions.
A short while later, Millar then told viewers at home: “Imogen is back with us”.
The woman went on to explain that while her hot flashes don’t last long, they make her “the furnace from the sun.”
She later took to social media following her appearance to talk about what had happened on air.
“Most days, I can work through all the varieties of weirdness perimenopause throws at me in private – or at least in a quiet room at work,” she said. “The hot flashes, anxiety, brain fog, itchiness and sore gums (yes) can be distracting and sometimes distressing.