Overview

• The BBC Breakfast presenter described decades of severe symptoms before receiving a private diagnosis of adenomyosis in 2022.
• She recounted episodes of heavy bleeding, vomiting, fainting and intense pain that recurred roughly every two and a half weeks.
• Before her diagnosis she had a contraceptive coil fitted in 2017 and underwent sterilisation in 2019 in attempts to manage the condition.
• Munchetty told the audience employers often do not understand women's health and recalled being told it would improve if she had a baby, which she rejected.
• Separate tabloid reports have claimed she was placed under review over a bullying complaint, a claim attributed to The Sun, with the BBC issuing a general statement about taking conduct concerns seriously.