A 28-year-old news reporter from Philadelphia is no longer employed after video was posted online of her viciously berating a police officer outside of a comedy club.
Colleen Campbell, formerly with PHL 17 in Philadelphia, was drunk and disorderly outside the Helium Comedy Club Sunday night after she was asked to leave for disrupting the show. Once outside, Campbell began lashing out at an extremely patient cop who just wanted her and her date to leave the premises. She refused and kept getting in his face and yelling profanities:
“Or what? Or what, mother f***er? Lick my a**hole. How about that? F***ing piece of sh*t. That’s why nobody likes f***ing police … idiots in this f***ing town.”
Campbell then goes over to a doorman at the club and tries to spit on him. The officer then places her in handcuffs. She continues her tirade against cops, saying, “No wonder everyone wants to blow your f***ing heads off.”
One of the comedians that performed was outside taking the video. He posted it to his Facebook page. Needless to say, the video is filled with expletives:
Campbell is now speaking out about the video, telling Philadelphia Magazine she feels “ruined” by the video and wants to apologize to the officer.
“That’s not me or how I talk or act or anything at all,” Campbell said. “I don’t know what to do. I feel ruined and embarrassed for me and my family.”
Campbell initially claimed she only had one drink and was possibly drugged because “everything was foggy” and she remembers nothing. Eventually, she admitted to having five drinks, including two shots while she tended bar earlier in the evening.
“I feel awful,” she added. “That’s not me or how I speak or how I talk or how I was raised. I had to delete all my social media, because I’m getting threats.”
“I wanna apologize to the officer. I don’t remember the whole altercation at all. I remember feeling attacked. I would never talk like that. It was like watching a whole different me.”
Below is a censored, shorter version:




