Nadiya Hussain Rushed to Hospital Over Burnout

She's already claimed that racism in the 'broken' television industry and her desire to have 'difficult conversations' with producers led to the cancellation of her cookery show.

And now Nadiya Hussain has said she was once so burnt out while filming that she was rushed to hospital in an ambulance and has 'never been so unwell in my life.'

The winner, who worked with the BBC for a decade, said that she was not 'taken care of' by producers and claimed there was 'no one there' for her when she crashed.

Hussain, 41, has claimed that she was 'propped up' so that she was able to do her job, but that there was no depth to the care she received.

'During the last series, I got so sick we had to call an ambulance,' she told Closer magazine.

'I ended up in the hospital overnight. It was a burnout – I've never been so unwell in my life.

'Now I don't have anyone breathing down my neck, there is a sense of relief. I don't want to work with people who don't see my worth.'

She said that while 'there's an idea that you're taken care of in the TV industry' it's actually 'quite the opposite.'

'You're propped up so you're well enough to do your job,' she said.

'I didn't drink caffeine before and didn't even particularly like chocolate, but it became caffeine, chocolate, a bit of eye cream, another layer of lipstick, a spritz of the face, fresh air –and back onto set.

'I learned to cope with it and to keep going, but there's no one there for you when you crash.'

Hussain's latest attack on the Corporation comes after she claimed the programme was quietly dropped last year after she'd .

She said that producers seemed to be more concerned with the superficial aspects of the show, such as the colour of her lipstick, rather than the recipes.

'I'd had really difficult conversations, I was like: 'These are the people I don't want to work with any more. This doesn't align with me anymore. I need the recipes to be the focus,' she told the Radio Times this week.

'I need it to be less about what I'm wearing, the props and the colour of my lipstick. It needs to be about the food. Not long after, my show was cancelled.'

Earlier this year the cook, who won Bake Off in 2015, suggested her faith played a part in her exit, saying she felt pressured to .'

Soon after her book Rooza: A Journey Through Islamic Cuisine was published, Hussain revealed that she wouldn't make any more programmes for the BBC.