ITV's Lorraine Kelly forced to hit back at troll after sharing belief she may have PTSD

Lorraine Kelly has found herself responding to a troll after sharing how she realsied she probably suffers from PTSD - Post-traumatic stress disorder - as she revised the horror of the worst terrorist attack in British history.

On the evening of December 21 1988, a terrorist bomb exploded on Pan Am flight 103 and sent it plummeting to the ground in the Scottish Borders town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground.

At the time, Lorraine was the Scottish correspondent of breakfast news programme TV-am and was among the first reporters on the scene. Thirty five years on and Lorraine has revised Lockerbie to discover he effect Europe's deadliest terror attack had on the town in a new ITV documentary, Return To Lockerbie With Lorraine Kelly, which airs on Wednesday (November 15) at 9pm.

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But her trip back to the town saw the TV host unlock what she thinks may be undiagnosed and untreated PTSD. “Isn’t it odd, how the mind plays tricks on you?" ” she said in an interview with The Telegraph.

"There were certain things that happened to me that night that I only found out about while making this documentary. I remember – or I thought I did – me and my film and sound men [who included her now husband, Steve Smith] walking for ages through fields to where the nose cone of the plane had come to rest. But the nose cone had actually been very near to the road [by Tundergarth church]."

According to the publication, a total of 73 per cent of those living in Lockerbie 35 years ago suffer PTSD,