Former Hollyoaks star let rip at Holly and Phillip Schofield for their 'biased' coverage of her baby-daddy woes
STEPHANIE Davis made a sly dig at Holly Willoughby for breaking the mum code and "not sticking up for her" when Jeremy McConnell appeared on This Morning earlier this year.
The 24-year-old was a guest on the ITV show with son Caben-Albi today but called out Holly and Phillip Schofield for their "biased" interview with her then-ex back in February.
Speaking about the legal letter that she tried to get him to sign before submitting to a paternity test, Steph hit out at the much-loved presenting duo.
Phillip probed: ";I know you were cross with me about the letter."
Stephanie said: "I'm saying this honestly but I thought you were a bit biased with what happened in that interview."
Looking at Holly, she added: "You know what it's like to be a mum and I felt like there was no one sticking up for me."
Steph then went on to slam the pair for not fully revealing all aspects of the legal letter - despite one of the clauses being that it could not be discussed.
The actress issued her ex with a legal document which would stop him talking about the outcome of any DNA test, whether he was Caben's dad or not.
After looking at the document, Phillip told Jeremy he shouldn’t sign it - which left Steph, tuned in at home, seething with rage.
She continued: "It was out of order, but you've gotta think I had a newborn baby, I had the worst pregnancy in the world, my son was in the special care unit."
Denying she had "a sensible team behind her", she raged: "I was dealing with this myself as I was sick of everything going on.
"[In hindsight] no one would sign that. But at the time I was so angry."
Holly, choosing not to respond to Steph's previous remarks, soothed: "But it was the catalyst to get you talking again."
Steph said: "I called him the next day even though I was screaming at the TV, 'Phil!'"
Steph's appearance on the ITV daytime show comes just three months after Jeremy took a DNA swab live on air as he desperately tried to find out if he was the father of Stephanie Davis' baby.
The former Celebrity Big Brother star joined hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield on the show to discuss his ongoing paternity battle with his then-ex - who gave birth to Caben-Albi in January.
The pair initially split up last year after a row at a nightclub in Basingstoke on April 29. This was the last time Jeremy and Stephanie saw one another until January this year.
Steph told Jeremy that she was pregnant a month after their bitter split at the end of April 2016.
Jeremy claims that during their many splits, Stephanie would contact him to gloat about spending time with and sleeping with other men - and admits that he also behaved badly.
Speaking to the hosts, Jeremy said: "I’ve never once said I wasn’t the father, I’m not fame hungry.
"I want to set the record straight, I just said there was a month from April to May I didn’t know about and I want reassurance.
"When she makes it public it has to be dealt with, I have to defend myself.
"I hope I am the dad, people are thinking that I’m a bad person, thinking I won’t step up and I would.
"I want to be a dad I want to stand up [and be there] but I’m not being given the opportunity."
Steph issued Jeremy with an iron clad legal document to stop him talking about the outcome of any DNA test, which Phillip told Jeremy he shouldn't sign.
Holly started off by saying: "This is tricky because we have seen this contract and we can’t discuss it because of the terms of the contract."
Phillip - clearly horrified - added: "The contract says we can’t discuss the contract. So we can’t discuss that.
"What I can say, and we have looked at this professionally as a team, what we can say is that the word we would use for that contract, if it were me, and I wouldn’t sign it, is unreasonable.
"Because the terms of that contract in my eyes and in terms of our legal team here and the people that we’ve discussed it with, it has an impact on your entire life."
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