Ranvir Singh's drink spiking horror as she says 'everything started to swim'
Good Morning Britain's Ranvir Singh bravely shared her harrowing experience of having her drink spiked during a night out, leaving her with no memory of getting home.
On the July 1 episode of the popular ITV breakfast programme, presenters Susanna Reid and Ed Balls welcomed guests Rachel Ovens, a drink spiking victim in 2022, and campaigner and DJ Ashley James.
Rachel recounted the frightening ordeal of feeling vulnerable after her drink was tampered with at a seemingly safe local pub gathering with mates.
She had felt secure drinking with friends, but her sense of safety was shattered when she suspected someone slipped something into her drink, resulting in disorientation and numbness in her lower body.
Ranvir seized the moment to share her own chilling encounter with drink spiking, which occurred years earlier while she was still working in Manchester before moving to London, reports the Manchester Evening News.
Recounting the incident, she said: "It happened to me, it was years ago when I was still working in Manchester before I came to London."
She added: "It was about 7.30 in the evening and it was my first drink. I had gone to the bar and I was waiting, I think it was a work thing. I can't remember why I was there but no one else had arrived.
"I had arrived early and I went to the bar and ordered one glass of wine as you would do. I probably drank half of it and I thought I'm just going to nip to the loo before everyone arrives.
"And before I had even got to the loo everything had just started to swim."
The presenter recounted a horrifying experience, saying: "I remember feeling my legs go when 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 there and I just left. I can't remember what happened that evening, I can't even remember getting home."
Susanna probed: "Did you report it?" To which Ranvir confessed: "I didn't. 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 and my female producer who is just in the gallery said that 'it also happened to me' It's amazing how common it is."
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