Speaking to Stella magazine over the weekend, Smith revealed exactly how much this dig affected her. “That tipped me over the edge,” she said. “I just lost it. I was in unbelievable distress, trying to keep it all together and then a room full of people in my industry were just laughing at me.”

Referring to the angry tweets she shared afterwards, she added: “Honestly, I don’t remember. Drink. Desperation. Humiliation. I fell over the edge.” She pointed out that a couple of her former co-stars publically supported her – Ricky Tomlinson, David Walliams – but said there was no other support in the industry.

Sheridan Smith recalls “unbelievable distress” over “technical difficulties” Baftas joke