Ferne McCann denies visiting Arthur Collins in jail with daughter Sunday as she ‘sets record straight’

​Ferne McCann has denied reports she has visited ex-boyfriend Arthur Collins in prison on multiple occasions.

The former TOWIE star released a statement claiming she has only visited Collins once with their newborn daughter Sunday, after it was reported that his legal team suggested otherwise.

She wrote: “In response to today’s false press story about me. I am posting this so it cannot be misquoted and sets the record straight. There’s a constant slew of false stories written about me.

“The story today says that I have been visiting Sunday’s father in prison. As I have already made clear I visited him once and I have not been to see him since. I have repeatedly made clear that I have not been back to see him in response to the press asking me but this has been ignored.”

Collins is currently serving a 20 year sentence for an acid attack in an east London club which left 16 people with chemical burns and three people temporarily blinded.

McCann insisted that she does not “condone” his actions, before offering her “deepest sympathies” to the victims.

She finished: “Again and for absolute clarity, I do not in any way condone the actions that took place in Mangle in April 2017.

“Nobody should be faced with violence on a night out and the victims have my fullest sympathy. Respectfully, Ferne.”

Collins was yesterday handed an additional eight month sentence for smuggling a phone in to prison to call McCann.

During the court proceeding his barrister Rebecca Randall was reported as claiming McCann and Sunday had visited on more than one occasion.

But Ms Randall later explained, telling the Mirror: “Unfortunately, my comments were misreported yesterday. I said that his daughter has visited him with HIS mother and sister. I didn’t say ‘it’s’ mother.”

McCann and Collins had a year-long on-off romance before he went on the run following the attack before being arrested.