Kirstie Allsopp was reported to social services for taking her 15-year-old son on a train trip around Europe.
The “Location, Location, Location” presenter allowed her son Oscar to travel around Europe with a 16-year-old friend this summer, but was subsequently contacted by a social worker to inform him a file had been opened after child protection concerns were raised.
She told the Mail on Sunday: “I just felt bad, I felt really bad and I was angry, really, really angry.”
“It was really amazing. I felt like I was in a parallel world where people were taking this seriously.
“I have not broken any laws and I am not negligent in allowing my child to travel around Europe.”
Earlier this week, Ms Allsopp tweeted about Oscar's return from a nine-day train journey around Europe, telling X she was “proud of him”, before adding: “If we are scared, our kids will be scared. If we let go, our kids will fly away.”
However, she has come under fire for allowing the boy to travel alone.
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Ms Allsopp said the social worker “wanted to know what safety measures were in place for her son's travel”, but she became “furious” and told the worker it wasn't her business and she would hang up the phone.
Allsop said authorities had no idea she was targeted by someone making false allegations of neglect, and she was never told how the referrals were made or who made them.
A file has been opened on Oscar and his local council, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC), said it could remain open “in case there is another enquiry and we need to go to your home to investigate further”.
She told the Mail: “For me, the idea that this file might continue to exist was a blindside.”
“What (staff) said to me was, 'If you get another referral in six months and we need to go into your home and investigate further, it's good that you have a record of the first referral,'” he said.
“It was a truly Orwellian moment. She couldn't comprehend the fact that it was done with malicious intent.”
An RBKC spokesman told the paper: “Child protection is an absolute priority. We take every referral we receive very seriously and have statutory responsibility for children under the age of 18.”
They said it was “standard practice” for the records to be kept until the child's 25th birthday.
