Nate Byrne “Doing Okay” After On-Air Panic Attack
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ABC reporter Nate Byrne, , had to pause in the middle of a live news broadcast聽this morning after experiencing a panic attack live on-air.
Byrne was in the middle of reading the weather report for Queensland, when he paused, and asked to hand back over to ABC News Breakfast co-presenters Lisa Millar and Michael Rowland.
鈥淚鈥檓 actually going to need to stop for a second,鈥� he said.
鈥淪ome of you may know that I occasionally get affected by some panic attacks, and actually that鈥檚 happening right now.
鈥淟isa, maybe I could hand back to you.鈥�
The ABC posted footage of the moment to their social media, with a caption reading:
“News Breakfast鈥檚 own Nate Byrne experienced a panic attack earlier this morning while presenting the weather.
“He鈥檚 open about his panic attacks 鈥� he鈥檚 even written about them before 鈥� and he is doing okay. Here鈥檚 the moment it happened and the team鈥檚 response.”
You can see the moment here:
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Nate Byrne has been open about living with anxiety
Millar took back the air calmly, highlighting that Byrne is very open about living with anxiety and being someone who experiences panic attacks, and .
鈥淣ate wrote a great piece on the ABC online website about this and I reckon we might re-up it, put it on our socials, so you can have a bit of a read because it鈥檚 fantastic that he has been so open and transparent about it,鈥� Millar said.
鈥淭he response when he first wrote about it and spoke about it was that everyone said, 鈥極h thank god, Nate鈥檚 not perfect, we thought he was perfect, but actually he鈥檚 now sharing something鈥�.鈥�
Nate returned to the show later on, and apologised to his co-hosts.
鈥淪orry if I gave anybody a bit of a scare,鈥� he said.
鈥淵ou鈥檝e been very honest before about getting panic attacks on air and it鈥檚 great for people to know that it can happen to anyone,鈥漵aid Millar.
鈥淕ave me a scare because I thought I鈥檇 have to finish doing the weather report,鈥� joked Rowland.
Byrne also thanked his team, who supported him during the panic attack.
You can read Nate Byrne’s story .
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