Piers Morgan: Dealing With Repeat Failure, Death Threats & Regrets | E137

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Opinions, to me, are the spice of life. If you don't have an opinion, there's something wrong with you. I'm Piers Morgan Uncensored. Show some damn respect. Why do you want to deport me? Am I allowed to respond yet? I'm a news junkie, and it started when I was six or seven. And then, as I got through my teens, I became very opinionated. I read a report last year that said 33 million people in Britain are mentally ill. No, they're not. It's crap. We're spending too much time encouraging a kind of wallowing in self-pity.

People will misunderstand the use of the word.

Yeah, but hang on, hang on.

The risk I see is being the judge of whether someone's feelings are worthy of the emotion.

I'm done with this. I left on a point of principle, and the principle was, I'm entitled to my opinion. Why should my sons be exposed to death threats simply for being my children? Cancel culture's a virus as deadly over time as the coronavirus. The public wants someone to cancel cancel culture. I want to stimulate debate and to get to some kind of truth.

Have you ever regretted anything you've said? So without further ado, I'm Steven Bartlett, and this is The Diary of a CEO: USA Edition. I hope nobody's listening, but if you are, then please keep this to yourself. (instrumental music) Piers.

Steven. (laughs)

This is quite, quite interesting. You're usually on the, uh, the other side of the table.

I already feel uncomfortable.

(laughs)

I've, I've watched your stuff. You're, you're forensic. You know, you go deep, and I'm like, "I don't know."

(laughs)

I don't really know why I'm doing it, other than at least one of my sons is a massive fan of yours and said, "Daddy, you gotta do this podcast. Everyone listens to this podcast. So whatever you're doing, it's working, so I'm here."

Mm-hmm. You make great kids. Well, thank you for being here. Um, the th- the thing ... I was think, sat up just thinking, where do I start with this conversation? And honestly, the, the, the p- the center point of my curiosity is how you came to be the person you are today. And I looked through your story, especially your early years-

Mm-hmm.

... the loss of your father, c- certain experiences you've had when you were younger. You're a self-aware guy. You're an honest man. What are the factors at that pre-teen age that went into making Piers Morgan the man that we all know as this media anomaly?

I'm a junkie. I'm a news junkie, and it started when I was six or seven, which is just weird. I've had four kids myself. The idea of being six or seven and being addicted to what's happening in the world, to news, to newspapers. I used to sit and read the Daily Mail. My parents used to get the mail. I used to read it from cover to cover when I was six or seven. So from a very early age, I had that kind of fascination and curiosity with what was happening, and I wanted to know what was happening and what to think about it. And then, as I got through my teens, I became very opinionated, and I used to regularly get thrown out of my local pub on a Saturday night for getting drunk and disorderly. Disorderly, they meant just too opinionated and too loud, so I'd argue with people, and then it would get out of hand, and then I'd be thrown out. I always got myself back in, but-