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ABC star suffers crippling panic attack on live TV and is forced to walk off camera midway through weather report: 'I need to stop'


An ABC reporter has had to pause a live broadcast after experiencing a panic attack on-air. Here's what his colleagues did next.

Byrne calmly broke into his weather report to explain to the audience what was going on, before handing back to his ABC News breakfast co-presenters Lisa Millar and Michael Rowland. 'Nate wrote a great piece on the ABC online website about this and I reckon we might re-up it, put it on our socials, so you can have a bit of a read because it’s fantastic that he has been so open and transparent about it,' Millar explained to viewers. 'As I stood there under the studio lights, talking to people having their morning coffee and wiping sleep from their eyes, my heart was racing, I was gasping for breath and sweat was pouring out of every pore as my brain screamed "RUN!

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