Naga Munchetty: BBC Breakfast host broke down after racist insult 'I started crying'

express.co.uk:

Naga Munchetty, 46, has spoken out ahead of hosting Monday’s Panorama programme Let's Talk About Race, on her own experience of prejudice while growing up in Peckham, South London.The BBC Breakfast presenter shared the emotional moment she lost her best friend at school-aged seven after he called her a racist insult.Naga recalled: “I was in infant school and it was a boy who was one of my best friends.“We hung out all the time.

In the playground, chatting, collecting acorns, you know what kids do.” Her voice quivering, she took a moment before going further.  “One day he just said ‘I’m not going to play with you anymore because you’re a P**i.”The star described the incident as “really emotional and painful” to talk about.