Terrible tragedy: Loose Women
took a serious turn on Wednesday as presenters Katie Price, Janet
Street-Porter, Andrea McLean and Lisa Riley discussed the horrific
Manchester attack
She said: 'They
never ever say anything [about terror attacks] but this particular one
they came home from school and said, "Did you hear about all the kids
that were killed?"'
'They were deeply affected by this, they said, "If we go to concerts, can something happen to us?"
'I
said "You cant stop your life, these things can happen anywhere!" They
were really affected, they wanted to know how many kids had been hurt
and were asking questions.'
Katie said
it was important to stress to her children that they shouldn't stop
going to concerts or big public gatherings and that they must carry on
with their lives.
'I wasn't there and I'm really affected by it, so imagine the people that were there, it's just awful', she continued.
Difficult conversation: 'They
were deeply affected by this, they said, "If we go to concerts, can
something happen to us?", Katie said of her five children's reaction to
the news
'What must the parents
have been thinking... The people that have been injured - some have lost
limbs, some people will be mentally scarred.'
Lisa
touched upon her own experience of a bomb attack, recalling when she
was caught up in the 1996 Manchester IRA bomb as a teenager.
During
a discussion about whether children should be taught how to react in
the event of a terrorist attack, Lisa explained that panic and survival
instinct takes over.
'Unless you've
experienced it yourself, you can't understand that pandemonium', she
said. 'The one thing I remember is the visual scars, the amounts of
blood, that's what replays in my head still.'
Janet
was adamant that young people - who were deliberately targeted in the
cruel pop concert attack - should stand united in the face of terrorism.
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