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Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan, 56, took to Twitter today to praise actress Dame Joanna , 75, and to call on people to have more “mental resilience”. Many Twitter users were quick to decry both celebrities' stance on the subject, while some agreed that there was some logic to it. This morning Piers Morgan shared a tweet about Dame Joanna’s comments with his 7.9 million Twitter followers. The journalist retweeted GB News presenter Isabel Oakeshott, 47, who had shared her interview speaking to Joanna Lumley about the subject with her 195, 100 followers. In the caption Isabel wrote: “‘GET OVER IT!’ Joanna Lumley's take on the rush to describe all sadness as ‘mental illness’ - listen to the full podcast on my website.”In his retweet, Piers added: “LOVE this…” with four clapping emojis. “Of course, when I’ve regularly said similar stuff, I’ve been branded a heartless monster. “Perhaps now a national treasure like Dame Joanna’s said it, people may understand it’s actually a good thing to show mental resilience & a bit of ‘stiff upper lip.’”In the video itself, Dame Joanna tried to draw the distinction between struggling with serious mental health issues and feeling sad.She said: “When somebody dies and you grieve, that’s what being a human is.