Sheana Keane doesn’t want her alleged bullying row with Blathnaid Ni Chofaigh to overshadow her return to TV.
The former Afternoon Show presenter left the RTE show after it was claimed she was bullied by her co-star.
But now Sheana – who will be coming back on TV3 with a new documentary series – says she wants to put the “media contrived” episode behind her.
Former colleague: Sheana and Blathnaid | RTE
She said: “There are other people involved and I have to be cognoscente of their feelings too. It would be unfair of me to go there.”
She added: “It’s come about because I recognised that I used to default to other people’s needs and not listen to myself and my own needs. But, really, it’s just me growing up.”
Now Sheana, 43, is in the midst of filming a documentary for TV3 on adult literacy after a brief return after four years to co-host Late Lunch Live with Lucy Kennedy.
Return: Sheana is coming back to TV
She said: “The hard part was going back last year when I appeared on Late Lunch Live on TV3. I had no intention of returning to TV at the time. But my good friend Lucy rang me and said: ‘Get your butt in here now.'”
And Sheana told the Irish Independent that she now doesn’t mind how she looks on TV and has “no attachment whatsoever to being a TV presenter” – instead only about being a good person.
She added: “I work every day at being a better person, at being as kind as I can to other people, and to myself. If I don’t [work at it] I might go into automatic pilot, which would mean putting other people’s needs in front of mine.”
