Mel Greig claims she tried to stop royal prank call going to air in Seven interview

Former 2DayFM DJ Mel Grieg. Picture: Sunday Night

Former Today Network DJ Mel Greig has claimed she tried to prevent the notorious royal prank call from going to air but was overruled by the station.

“I feel like a failure as a human being,” A teary Greig told interviewer Mel Doyle on Seven’s Sunday Night program. “I am ashamed of myself. I should have tried harder to not let that prank call air.”

The station and DJ’s Greig and her co-host Michael Christian made international headlines in December 2012 when the pair managed to get a call through to the hospital where The Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton was being treated for morning sickness after they impersonated The Queen and Prince Charles. The Nurse who initially put the call through, Jacintha Saldanha, later took her own life and blamed the DJs in a suicide note.