Carol McGiffin was swift to defend herself after an opinion she expressed on Friday's Loose Women was at odds with the one shared by her co-stars.
Long standing panellist Carol was back on the ITV lunchtime discussion show for it's final episode of the week, alongside host and future Strictly star Kaye Adams and colleagues Frankie Bridge and Sunetra Sarkar. After the show began with Kaye getting some nuggets of advice from former Strictly contestants Frankie and Sunetra, the topic of discussion turned to what the ladies would be willing to do in the name of friendship.
As the strap line 'How far would you go for a friend?' appeared at the bottom of the screen, Kaye gave th e Loose Women panel a 'friendship test,' first asking them if they would jump out of a plane for mate, after 60% of Brits said they would, before moving onto answering a call in the middle of the night, letting a friend live with them for free or help pay their mortgage.
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All of those scenarios prompted different reactions from Frankie, Sunetra and Carol, but the biggest difference of opinion came with the final question on if you would give up a kidney, which 60% of Loose Women viewers said they would.
Frankie was the first to comment, saying that while she'd be "really nervous," she couldn't watch a friend die if she could have done something to help. Quick to respond, Carol said: "You don't know what you'd do. You say you would but you might not."
Sunetra explained that she had a few friends with incurable illnesses so she "knew" she would. Listening to that, Carol defended herself, firing back: "It kind of sounds like, that because I wouldn't it's making me out like I'm a bad person. But I don't want to and I wouldn't."
She went on: "I don't think people should put pressure on others to do things like that. And I tell you what, if I was sick and someone offered me their kidney, I'd probably say no.
"I wouldn't want the responsibility of taking it from someone, because what if the only kidney they're left with then fails. How rough would you feel about that?"
Kaye conceded that you couldn't really make a judgement until 'you were in that situation' but said the results of the polls warmed her as to what lengths people would go for their friends.
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