EastEnders star Michelle Collins became 'violently sick' from eating daffodils

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Michelle Collins has recalled how she became ‘violently sick’ from eating daffodils.

The actress, who played Cindy Beale on EastEnders, recalled the dangerous blunder on Thursday’s episode of Good Morning Britain.

Hosts Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard were discussing the story of M&S being called out on social media for putting daffodils in a section where they could be mistaken for spring onions and eaten.

And while Ben initially seemed incredulous that someone could confuse the flowers with the vegetable, Michelle was living proof.

She explained she had been creating cooking videos over lockdown and decided to make a stir fry – for which she would need spring onions.

‘I brought home what I thought was a spring onion, cooked it, chopped it up, put it in the wok, had a few tastes and next thing I was running to the loo.

‘I was violently, violently sick.’

She said people thought he was ‘completely crazy’ but ‘if you put them together they look similar.’

All parts of a daffodil contain the toxic chemical lycorine, which can cause symptoms like abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.

Botanist James Wong, who pointed out Marks and Spencer’s dangerous mistake on Twitter, explained in his message that the flowers are ‘filled with microscopic crystals, so biting into one is like swallowing a box of tiny needles.

‘Properly nasty.’

The supermarket has since apologised and called the placement of the daffodils a ‘genuine error.’

Michelle was on the programme to plead for free school meals for all children in the UK, recalling how, growing up, her mother didn’t want her children to partake in free meals due to the stigma around it.

Her mum worked three jobs and ‘really struggled,’ but the children would have had to go into a separate queue for a free meal which was ‘humiliating.’

Further arguing her case, Michelle said she had heard from teachers how children who do not have a nutritious meal at lunchtime have low concentration levels and could even fall asleep in the afternoon.

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV and ITVX

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