A reporter recently opened up about the ‘train wreck’ interview he had with Sarah Ferguson where the former Duchess of York stormed out of the room when things got heated

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Sarah Ferguson walked out of the interview when things got heated

Sarah Ferguson is reportedly living overseas in exile while she considers her next move — after becoming deeper embroiled in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

In September, a number of charities dropped the former Duchess of York after it was revealed she emailed the notorious paedophile weeks after promising never to speak with him again. However, in recent days, further troubling emails emerged.

They were released by the US Department of Justice and they revealed Sarah, who vacated Royal Lodge at King Charles’ request, asked the sex predator to “marry” her, offered to show his clients around Buckingham Palace, and she even took her daughters, Beatrice and Eugenie, to meet Epstein.

One man meanwhile who has had private dealings with Sarah off camera is veteran Australian television presenter Michael Usher. He had a car crash interview with Sarah in 2011, the same year she sent the email to Epstein, for 60 Minutes Australia. It got so heated, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s ex-wife stormed off.

Last year, Michael went on Nova 96.9’s Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie where he discussed his awkward dealings with the ex-Duchess.

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Veteran journalist Michael Usher (Image: WireImage)

Offering insight, he said: “I had to call her Duchess. She wouldn’t let me call her Sarah, lots and lots of airs and graces.

“But she was fine, and she was relatively sweet. But then there was just this moment…she turned and getting her back into the chair, was crazy. She came back and she continued the interview, and then it was like a different personality again.”

During the uncomfortable interview about her memoir Finding Sarah: A Duchess’s Journey to Find Herself, Sarah told him: “Don’t try and trick me now because I am not going to play this game. Delete that bit.”

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Things had got heated after Michael asked Sarah to watch undercover footage where she offered to sell access to former partner Andrew for large sums of money.

After the interview eventually finished, Michael and his crew went outside, before Sarah apparently ran after him.

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Sarah Ferguson pictured with former husband Prince Andrew during an Easter Sunday service earlier this year (Image: WireImage)

Recalling the bizarre moment, Michael, who described the encounter as a “hot mess”, said: “We walked outside, and the Duchess came running up behind me. She chucked her heels off and she’s in her stockings on the lawn. Going ‘Michael, how was that?’

“By that stage, I just said, ‘Sarah, if I were you, I’d be asking to go back into the room and do that interview all over again, because I don’t know what happened.’

“Then she goes, ‘Oh, well, anyway, who wants to sign some books? I’ll sign your book for you. And now, what are your kids names?’ And off she went from there.”

Michael said at a different time that the interview was a “train wreck” and added: “She walked out on me three or four times. It was absolutely horrendous.”