ABC star suffers heartbreaking panic attack live on-air and is forced to walk off camera midway through weather report READ MORE: Viewers reveal the simple reason ABC's News Breakfast can never 'expect to be treated seriously' as a Sunrise and Today competitor By Mikaela Wilkes For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:09, 13 August 2024 | Updated: 05:28, 13 August 2024 e-mail 9 shares 1 View comments ABC News weather presenter Nate Byrne had to pause in the middle of Tuesday morning's broadcast after suffering a panic attack live on-air. Byrne calmly broke into his weather report to explain to the audience what was going on, before handing back to his ABC News breakfast co-presenters Lisa Millar and Michael Rowland . 'I'm actually going to need to stop for a second,' he said.
'Some of you may know that I occasionally get affected by some panic attacks, and actually that’s happening right now. 'Lisa, maybe I could hand back to you.' Fortunately, the reporter's struggles with anxiety were well known to his colleagues, who quickly assisted Byrne as he recovered off-camera.
Millar took the opportunity to highlight an editorial which Byrne published about his experiences of on-air panic attacks in 2022 . The weather presenter was later welcomed back to the show and apologised for stepping out. ABC News weather presenter Nate Byrne had to pause in the middle of Tuesday morning's broadcast after suffering a panic attack live on-air.
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