NEWS reaches us of a terribly polite bust-up between Will Young and Piers Morgan at, where else but the Chelsea Flower Show.
Before you let your imagination run away with itself this was not a disagreement over daffodils or an argument about azaleas. They neither reached for the last hyacinth bulb at the same time, nor differed in opinion on how best to treat a mossy lawn.
Will has been diagnosed with PTSD and Piers was none too kind about it and Will told The Sunday Times Magazine that he saw his chance to tackle Piers and took it.
Piers has family members in the military and has often opined that soldiers are the only people who can have PTSD.
When Will went public with his diagnosis Piers tweeted: “Will Young does not have PTSD. He has WNTS – Whiny Needy Twerp Syndrome.
“Seriously, is there any celebrity left in the world not currently suffering from PTSD?”
Piers said the term PTSD was “massively over-used” which “damaged focus for those with real issues”.
Whiny needy twerp syndrome? Why, that could be used as a teaching example in Pot Calling Kettle 101.
Will was at the Chelsea Flower Show with his mum and said that when he first saw Piers he felt “terrified” but “then I was like, I’m not letting that sh*tbag walk away without telling him.” So he marched over.
Piers was with his parents and a heated debate ensued with no clear agreement reached on a definition of PTSD and who was ‘allowed’ to suffer from it.
Neither side was prepared, apparently, to give an inch and so Will ended it all by turning to Piers's parents and saying: “I’m so sorry your son has turned out the way he has, because you both seem like really nice people.”
And then? “I grabbed my mum’s hand and sashayed into the flower show.”
High five that man.
Piers Morgan has a history of being unkind about people in the public eye who have PTSD including Lady Gaga who developed the anxiety disorder after having been raped.
How and ever, last September Piers told Radio Times that the only tweet he regrets was the one he wrote in response to a CNN post that read: “Lady Gaga: ‘I suffer from PTSD’”.
Piers had replied “No, soldiers returning from battlefields do. Enough of this vain-glorious nonsense.”
“I remember Lady Gaga saying she had PTSD and stuff and I launched into her and sort of inferred that no-one outside the military should really be claiming to get PTSD,” he told Radio Times.
“I don’t think I should have been quite so dismissive of everybody. I’ve got a lot of military in my family and PTSD is obviously a real problem if you come off a battlefield but I do accept that you can have it in other forms.”
The Chelsea Flower Show takes place in May so his repentance occurred after the run-in with Will Young but the mea culpa wasn’t extended to him.
The seeds to this feud were planted long ago and it’s going to take more than a bouquet of flowers for these two to make up.
High Five Wll Young
A second mention for, and indeed a hat tip to, Will Young for providing yet more laughs.
Will had a vision of how his life would look at 40. Then he turned 40 and had to re-evaluate.
“You know, my dream was to be 40, living on a farm with four kids, rescue animals and a husband who worked in the City, and I could just do, like, a low dust occasionally and that hasn’t happened. But I’m not broken because of that.”
Will, you had us at ‘do a low dust occasionally’. Thanks for the laughs.
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