presenter Anne Diamond was told she should "cheer up and have another one" following the tragic death of her son Sebastian. The 70-year-old broadcaster welcomed her third some back in 1991 with her husband Mike Hollingsworth back in 1991.

But four months after his birth, the youngster sadly died of cot death despite the doting mum following all the medical advice at the time. Now, the broadcaster has lifted the lid on how she secured a legacy for her son and the changes she campaigned for to prevent unnecessary infant deaths. On Friday (March 14), the mum-of-five revealed the shocking message doctors gave her after her son passed.

She recalled: "When it comes to babies I think that there's this idea almost that having babies is difficult and dangerous and somewhere along the line you just have to accept the terrible things that can occur. I was told by the medical establishment, by some perfectly nice doctors and nurses basically to go home and grieve, and cheer up and have another one".

The broadcaster admitted that she was completely unaware of the risks of cot death when she was raising her son, after seeing no negative repercussions with her first two sons. She admitted: "I was in total ignorance when I had Sebastian.

"I brought him up the same way I brought up my other two little boys already. I laid him on his front because that's what we were all told to do, but there's a danger". Following his passing, the journalist researched the risks of cot death where she learnt that New Zealand had been campaigning to raise awareness about cot deaths.

Anne went on: "At the very same time, in New Zealand they had found that out and they decided to turn all of their research into a campaign. And we in Britain were deliberately kept ignorant of that so that we could be a control against New Zealand's campaign, and that is scandalous.

"I was so angry, I thought if I can't get action in any other way, I will sue the government for allowing my baby to die because they could have been campaigning to help save his life". The TV star went on to explain how she "prostituted her grief" in order to raise awareness for the huge risks to newborns.

She continued: " Every radio programme, every newspaper that asked for an interview, we just had to talk about our grief, we had to talk about what we'd found. It was prostitution of our grief, frankly, but it was the only way in the end that we could get the government to sit up and take notice.

"We're having to learn it with lots of campaigners at the moment, think of the farmers. You've got to raise a stink and build a blaze to get any action at all. There are miscarriages now that could be avoided if we took better care of mum and I think that more campaigns are needed on that now".

Following Sebastian's death, the GB News star became a voca advocate for safe infant sleep practices, partitcularly promoting the Back to Sleep campaing which encouraged parents to place their babies on their backs to sleep to reduse the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The campaign has been cresited with significantly reducing the numbwe of SIDS deaths in the UK.

Anne went on: "I think it took me a long time to get anything done because I was a bereaved mother, I was a woman, and I was a journalist. But actually, I had backed up everything I was saying with medical sense, and I think misogyny probably played a part in it taking so long to get action and I do think governments should do a bit more listening and then be proactive, not be scared to change their minds, do a U-turn".

The broadcaster confessed that she believes that she managed to make waves in encouraging changes to SIDS deaths in the UK was becuase of her fame. She explained: "You ask a lot of campaigners on a lot of issues and they have a lot of trouble getting any action. I managed to get action because I was famous, and that's true but it shouldn't just be for famous people, should it?"

GB News Breakfast airs every day from 6am on their GB News website.