Nicky Campbell wants to apologise to birth mum for 'not allowing her into his life'

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She continued to send Christmas cards for the first five years of his life, but they only met in 1990 when Nicky was then 29.The BBC star said it was a surreal moment and felt bad for his birth mother due to her “complicated, rather tragic life”.Just 18 months before Nicky was born, Stella had given birth to his half-sister Esther and also given her up for adoption.However, despite Stella wanting to reconnect with her son, the presenter admitted he felt “no emotional connection” to her.In his new book One of the Family, Nicky wrote: “I couldn’t magic up feelings that weren’t there. “Maybe it was self-protection – subconsciously, I just couldn’t let the hurt she’d already caused go deeper.”Stella died in 2008 and Nicky flew over for the.