Doorman Ozzie Gandaa, who threw bottles and bar stools at the three knife-wielding attackers, appeared on Good Morning Britain today to talk about his experience from the fateful night last weekend and revealed how it was still affecting him now.
Recalling the incident to hosts Kate Garraway and Ben Shephard, the bouncer said: “Three guys were probably three metres away from me, and they just started stabbing one of my colleagues.
“[I was] just throwing chairs, throwing whatever we could find to kind of corner them off and get them focused on me rather than other people.”
He appeared to be shaken and looked downcast as he relived the horrific experience, while his voice seemed to be breaking during the interview on the ITV show.
The doorman said he took action against the attacker after his friend and colleague was savagely stabbed by one of the men, saying he had to do something to help her and he couldn’t “live with myself” if she “didn’t make it back”.
He said he was “relieved” when the police arrived and he heard the sirens, knowing that the ordeal was finally over.
Ozzie went on to reflect about returning to the area, explaining: “It’s hard being round here, thinking if there’s anything I could have done better, anything I could have done to help more people.”
He went on to say: “[It was] hard enough just getting on the train, just getting up there, I felt very paranoid. I had to have one of my colleagues with me so I actually felt a little bit safer, so I felt I was able to do it.
“Going back to the area itself brought back a lot of memories and made me think, ‘I made it out’ when other people didn’t make it out.”
“It made me feel like a little bit of a different person now. I’m a strong person, I rarely run from things, it’s not in my nature to do it – it’s changed the way I kind of feel.
“I feel very paranoid going back to the place… I know it’s not going to happen again. And the likelihood of it happening again in my lifetime again is more or less impossible, but in the back of my head it’s, ‘Is it going to happen again? Am I safe? Are my staff going to be safe? Are the people that I’m going to be working with going to be safe?’,” he added.
When asked by the Good Morning Britain stars whether he would go back to work, Ozzie remained stoically defiant and said that he would, saying that he had to keep his staff safe.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV at 6am.
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