Good Morning Britain's Ranvir Singh left 'unable to hear or walk' after horror drink spiking incident that left her with 'no memory of getting home'
The 47-year-old opened up about what happened while hosts Susanna Reid and Ed Balls spoke to a spiking victim called Rachel Ovens and campaigner Ashley James, while on Tuesday's episode of the ITV show.
Rachel spoke about the moment, which occurred in 2022, with the presenters, which led Ranvir to share her own terrifying experience that happened 'years ago' while she was working in Manchester.
Ranvir said: 'It was about 7:30pm, in the evening and it was my first drink.
'I had gone to the bar and I was waiting, I think it might have been a work thing, I can't actually remember what I was there for, but no one else had arrived.
'I had arrived early and I went to the bar and bought one glass of wine as you would do. I probably drank half of it, or maybe three quarters, and I thought I'm just going to nip to the loo before everyone arrives.
'And before I had even got to the loo, the loos were down the stairs, everything had just started to swim.'
She continued: 'I remember feeling my legs go and I went downstairs.
'And by the time I came upstairs, I sort of managed to get myself up, I couldn't hear anything, my hearing had gone.
'I just remember coming up the stairs and looking down the bar thinking I can't go back down there and I just left.
'I can't remember what happened that evening, I can't even remember getting home.'
A shocked Susanna asked if she reported it, to which Ranvir replied: 'I didn't. Weirdly, this was probably about 12/13 years ago, so it didn't occur to me to report it.
'But interestingly, we've just been talking about it, my female producer who is just in the gallery said that "it also happened to me".
'It's amazing how common it is.'
It comes after a mum and dad appeared on This Morning to talk about the heartbreaking death of their son last week.
Colin and Mandy Mackie lost their 18-year-old son Greg back in 2017 after he was found dead in his university halls of residence located in Edinburgh.
A toxicology report showed that he had the equivalent of five ecstasy tablets in his system, but no trace of alcohol.
The parents - who are campaigning to change the laws around spiking - believe that their son was spiked, but no justice has been served seven years on from their devastating loss.
Recalling the moment that their lives changed forever, Mandy said: 'We got a call at 6am and it was two police officers that called us, [who] come knocking on the door.
'They just come in and "Your son has died from an overdose".
'Greg had nothing to do with drugs, Greg has never had anything to do with drugs.'
She continued: 'He was a very cautious person.
'He had already done some filming on depression and was actually at the time, he was doing studies and putting a programme together on drugs.
'He was very aware of everything, would never have taken his eye off the ball. So for them to say it was a drugs overdose, plus he was into his sports, he was into speedway, he was into boxing. It was something that never was part of our life.
'It never entered our lives. So for someone to come and tell me something like that, "No you've got this wrong. There's no way!"'
Colin went on to explain that they felt as if they weren't given much support after they were told what had happened to their son, and that they had to keep 'chasing' the police for more information.
'For a very challenging time, we just felt really let down,' he told Cat and co-host Ben Shephard, 50.
'That's why we've moved on to where we are now, which is campaigning.'
Ben asked what the police's reaction was when they shared that they thought he had been spiked, after it was found he had the equivalent of five ecstasy tablets in his system, with no alcohol.
Many said: 'What had happened was, the statements they had got, they had interviewed 74 people in the halls of residence, they said he had been drinking and he had taken the tablets himself.
'We were going "Nah. No, definitely not." He wouldn't do that.
'You know your child. And obvious;y when the report came through and he hadn't been drinking, and the equivalent of five ecstasy tablets, then it was a totally different ball game.
'We said "Look, we told you". If he had been drinking, everyone could possibly take one.
'But they even turned around and said even people that mess with drugs would never have taken that many.
'They know that's a dangerous limit.'
Colin revealed that they did do a 'long investigation', but nobody has been charged.
'At the end of it, the police officer that they were dealing with said he'd got it down to two suspects, in his opinion, but didn't have enough evidence to get it over the line,' Colin said.
'So he could never prove it actually happened, and eventually dropped the case.
'They said that's it, it's as far as they can go.'
The couple have set up a charity called Spike Aware.
'We've got to change this,' Colin told the presenters.
'We want to raise awareness of it and get changes in the law. The law wasn't substantial enough,' Colin said.
Mandy explained Colin was reading through it and found a slight loop hole, stressing: 'A few of the lawyers looked at it and thought "Yeah you're right here. There is a loop hole."'
Cat pointed out: 'And it's to be tougher on the perpetrator?'
Colin explained: 'Currently there's a loop hole, you've got to show intent.
'This is the gap, we have a discussions with Joe Roberts, an MP, he put forward an amendment last week to try and strengthen up the wording of the bill.
'It was voted down and it will go the House Of Lords. We're not giving up.'
This Morning airs weekdays from 10am on ITV1 and is available to stream on ITVX.
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