Katie Hopkins Collapses In South Africa, Blames It On Ketamine

Professional provocateur tweets cryptic explanation.

Katie Hopkins has tweeted a shocking photo of herself lying on a road in South Africa being attended to by medics.

The controversial former-columnist can be seen receiving an injection and oxygen while face down.

Hopkins offered a cryptic explanation for the picture, tweeting: ”(ketamine 1 / Hopkins 0)”. HuffPost UK has contacted the former Apprentice candidate for further comment.

Grateful thanks to the South African emergency services for putting me back together. Leaving it all on the road, to tell the truths not being told. *ketamine 1 / Hopkins 0) pic.twitter.com/NHTjBsrd3v

— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) February 4, 2018

UPDATE: Hopkins later tweeted saying she received “medical ketamine for a serious dislocation”.

Dear British Press. Ten days of reports on the murder of white farmers and NOT ONE WORD from you. I receive medical ketamine for a serious dislocation & you salivate like dogs over meat. SHAME ON YOU #plaasmoorde pic.twitter.com/hz7CS4qG0A

— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) February 4, 2018

Hopkins - who suffers from epilepsy - is apparently in South Africa researching the plight of white farmers in the country and has indulged in edgy photoshoots, according to her Twitter account.

F*ck it and fight back #standstrong pic.twitter.com/tVcWxUdkzQ

— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) February 1, 2018

But her claims that white farmers are being systematically murdered is not backed up by reliable data.

According to an analysis by the BBC, it is not possible to say if, of the 19,016 murders in South Africa in 2016-17, a disproportionate number were white farmers.

Hopkins is working on a crowd-funded project after she lost her regular job as a columnist.

Katie Hopkins goes to South Africa to push the 'white genocide' myth, ends up passing out on ketamine? WTAF is going on? https://t.co/Zlb58RfP2y

— Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷 (@MikeStuchbery_) February 4, 2018

any columnist still in need of pictures of migrants being treated with suitcases straight from the airport, happy to assist. pic.twitter.com/kZANxwg8mG

— Junaid (@ibrownlad) February 4, 2018

Last year, MailOnline was forced to pay £150,000 in damages after she wrote a string of mistruths and defamatory claims about a British Muslim family barred from travelling to the United States.

It was the end of a rough 12 months for Hopkins - in March, Hopkins lost a Twitter libel case against food blogger Jack Monroe.

Monroe won £24,000 in damages, while Hopkins was ordered to pay both her own and Monroe’s legal bills, a figure some experts say could exceed £300,000.

The action was over a tweet sent by Hopkins in 2015 which falsely implied Monroe had either vandalised a war memorial or had condoned the act.

Then in May she lost her LBC show after she tweeted remarks in the wake of the Manchester bombing that some interpreted as calls for ethnic cleansing.

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