Philly Newscaster Fired Over Comedy-Club Meltdown (Video)

“I feel ruined and embarrassed for me and my family,” Colleen Campbell says

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Philadelphia reporter Colleen Campbell has been fired from her job at a local news station after video of her arrest at a comedy club went viral on Facebook.

Campbell said in an interview with Philly Mag on Tuesday that she received a call from her employers at PHL 17 the day after her arrest informing her that she had been fired. The outlet reported the following day that she had also been fired from her second job as a bartender.

The video (below), which has been viewed more than 4 million times since it was posted on Monday, shows Campbell attempt to spit on the club’s manager while shouting obscenities at the arresting officer. The 5-minute clip was recorded after she had been kicked out of the club for disruptive behavior.

According to Wil Sylvince, who was performing at the club and posted the video to Facebook, Campbell “was disturbing the show with her ‘loud whispering’” and was asked to leave after multiple warnings and complaints from other audience members.

“That’s not me or how I talk or act or anything at all. I don’t know what to do. I feel ruined and embarrassed for me and my family,” Campbell told Philly Mag, adding that despite having been drinking that night, she “didn’t feel wasted” at the time.

In a previous Facebook post (Campbell has since deleted her social media accounts), she suggested that she may have been drugged. In the interview with Philly Mag she described the entire night as “foggy.”

“I wanna apologize to the officer,” she said. “I don’t remember the whole altercation at all. I remember feeling attacked. I would never talk like that. It was like watching a whole different me.”

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