A Good Morning Britain journalist has said she was forced to make a big career decision after a family ordeal, which left her son "upset and angry".

Ranvir Singh, 48, is one of the UK’s most prominent and famous journalists with a starring role on the ITV morning show, but has recently spoken about the toll her career has taken on her personal life.

Speaking on The Netmums Podcast, she said that after she missed her son Tushaan’s nativity to work an evening news shift, she decided to start setting boundaries.

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While Ranvir was working the late shift, her mother, sister, and childminder had a terrible time with her then very young child.

She said: “There was one year when I was doing Good Morning Britain, and I was doing ITN, so not just for one year, I did it for a few years where I was working every hour God sent, luckily. Whatever shifts came up, I would just have to say yes to absolutely everything.

“There was one where I had said, this was in primary school, it’s one where I had said yes to a network news shift at ITV News. I asked my mum and my sister and the childminder, who we had at the time, if they could go to watch him in his nativity thing… I feel like I was so busy and so stretched thin that I probably didn’t tell him. He was around six or seven at the time.”

Ranvir explained that whilst she knew her son was in good hands, she still felt worried about having chosen work over his nativity, meaning she wasn’t able to fully concentrate, something exacerbated by what was happening at home.

She explained: “I felt anxious at work, not anxious, but I wasn’t present at work either, that’s the point. I wasn’t even able to write my headlines very well.

“It was really awful…they went and he was so upset and angry, and so difficult. The three of them couldn’t get him into the car, couldn’t get him out the hall, couldn’t get him to put his blazer on, couldn’t get him to put his shoes on…it sounded horrible…like he was out of the box, uncontainable.

“I’ve been out of the house since 3am, it’s now 6pm and I’m still at work. This is my second job of the day. I’ve done GMB, I’ve done lunchtime news, I’m now on evening news. I won’t get home till God knows what time.”

It was after this incident that Ranvir decided to accept fewer shifts even if, as aself employed freelancer, it would leave her worse off finacially.

She said: “I was like, holy s***. Honestly, we can be poorer, but I cannot ever, ever do this again. I cannot. It just makes me want to cry now. It’s just horrible.

“And I just made a decision. I was like, I’m saying goodbye to money, obviously, it’s financial security. I just had to say no. And it was difficult. And I think, I don’t know what effect it had on my career, but it certainly meant I had to, I made a big decision to say no.”

This isn’t the first time Ranvir has spoken about her son, born in 2012. On Kate Thornton’s White Wine Question Time podcast, the star admitted that she had split from his father, Ranjeet Singh Dehal, when she was seven months pregnant.

She said: “I have actually been a single mum since I was seven months pregnant. I’ve kept that so quiet but I am ok to talk about it now. Now I’m at a point in my life where I think that I’m learning to embrace my whole life and to not compartmentalise it as much, to keep everything separate.”