Louise Thompson blasts Euphoria over colostomy bag scene: ‘That is fairly gross’

Louise Thompson has fiercely attacked Euphoria for a controversial second that includes an ostomy bag, describing it as ‘disturbing’ and ‘fairly raunchy’.

The drama’s ultimate season – which concluded final week – has made headlines all through its eight episodes, with viewers criticizing its “disturbing” and “vulgar” scenes.

Within the penultimate episode, crime king Alamo Brown (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) speaks along with his worker Huge Eddy (Kadeem Hardison), who has an ostomy bag after surviving a gunshot to the stomach.

An ostomy bag is a medical system used to gather bodily waste and worn over the stoma, a gap made within the stomach.

There are a number of explanation why somebody may have an ostomy bag, together with if they’ve been recognized with colon most cancers, have an stomach damage, or have a extreme case of inflammatory bowel illness.

Within the Euphoria scene, Huge Eddy reveals that his abdomen has been stapled shut and that he now wears an ostomy bag, with Alamo calling the system a “s**t-bag” and telling his co-worker, “Do not present that to no motherfucker.” Annoying.’

In April 2024, former Made In Chelsea star Louise revealed she was sporting an ostomy bag after beforehand being recognized with ulcerative colitis.

She wrote on the time: ‘Is not it weird that this little grey bag is the worth I pay for good well being! I say goodbye to that nasty, menacing colon!’

Two years later, she has spoken out towards Euphoria’s portrayal of a personality who mocks and insults using an ostomy bag, questioning whether or not it’s “a bit irresponsible.”

In an Instagram video, she defined that despite the fact that she has by no means seen the drama earlier than, many individuals have despatched her the clip of the scene between Alamo and Eddy.

“I will quote some strains from this sequence straight as a result of I might like to listen to your ideas on it. So he says, “That is a bag, proper? All these staples appear to be railroad tracks, cowl that stuff, that is gross. Do not present that to no motherfucker,” she stated.

“Clearly I do not act very nicely, and these aren’t precisely phrases that roll off my tongue, however I have been fascinated with how I really feel about it as a result of I do not assume it is that straightforward.”

The 36-year-old acknowledged that, in her opinion, it’s “fairly progressive” that HBO has featured an ostomy bag on a serious TV present.

‘I do not know if that might have existed on TV ten years in the past. “I feel it is necessary that persons are uncovered to those sorts of issues that greater than 100,000 folks on this nation dwell with,” she stated.

Nevertheless, Louise continues: ‘I do not assume the terminology used could be very applicable. The framing, the disgust, the ‘cowl that shit up’, as an alternative of it feeling like illustration and trustworthy illustration, it feels a bit like we’re utilizing somebody’s horrible medical circumstances as a punchline, and I am unsure how that feels for me as a result of all I’ve to consider is my previous self.”

Louise defined that she was ‘extremely insecure’ when she was a young person and ‘struggled with physique confidence’, so if she had had her surgical procedure when she was youthful after which seen this scene, it could have ‘made every little thing ten instances worse for me’.

“And I additionally surprise if it encourages sure individuals who do not know any higher, who is perhaps watching that present, to nod alongside and say, ‘Sure, that is actually disgusting.’ After which there could be the threat that these folks will really feel that in public in the event that they encounter somebody who does have an ostomy bag,” she continued.