Piers Morgan has claimed that he had a "heated argument" with Donald Trump before their explosive interview, which sees the former president storm off.
For his first chat on his new show, Uncensored, Piers interviews Trump - but it isn't exactly the friendly chat they had back in 2019 for Good Morning Britain.
Instead, Trump ends up storming off during the interview, branding Piers a "fool" as he refuses to take part any longer, demanding that they "turn the camera off".
Speaking to Lorraine Kelly today in his first appearance on ITV daytime since quitting GMB, he referred to Trump's statement calling him "Fake News" and accusing him of "deceitful editing".
Piers said: "It's ridiculous. He says in the same interview that it was long and tedious - I don't think he's tedious, just for the record! But he also says he's very strong, so he seems a bit confused about how he thinks the interview went.
"Here's what I think! I was supposed to have 20 minutes with him. We had a very heated argument before we even got on air."
"It wasn't even looking like the interview was going to go ahead," Lorraine pointed out.
Piers continued: "Because somebody close to Nigel Farage, who works for a competitor, sent Mr Trump a three-page dossier of all the criticism I've made of him during the pandemic and after the election."
"Half of your columns are pro and half are anti," Lorraine said.
He said: "I've discussed this before - I try and be fair about Trump. I've tried to be more balanced than most journalists."
The former pals turned antagonistic towards one another during the pandemic, with Piers being highly critical of the president after he made a number of strange claims, including that disinfectant injections and sunlight cure coronavirus.
After Piers mocked Trump's "bats***" theory, he was left fuming after the former president unfollowed him on Twitter.
Following the presidential election at the end of 2020, which saw Trump lose to Joe Biden, Piers lashed out again at Trump's "disgraceful and indefensible" attack on US democracy after he held a conference over the election results.
In November that year, while the race for presidency was still underway, Trump announced that he had won and called for all ballot counting to cease, insisting that there had been a "major fraud of the American people".
Two months later in January 2021, five people died as violent Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol in scenes described as "as close to a coup attempt this country has ever seen".
Piers later said in February that year that he believed that Trump had "lost his mind" and should be convicted.
*Lorraine airs weekdays at 9am on ITV
