"Claudia Winkleman opened up about the moment her daughter went up in flames some time after it happened.
Matilda, then 8, was wearing a witch costume on Halloween last year when it brushed against a candle, setting her alight.
“We couldn’t put her out,” the mum-of-3 told BBC’sWatchdog. “Her tights had melted into her skin.”
Describing how quickly the “5 quid” supermarket-bought costume set ablaze, Claudia said: “It was not like fire I had seen before.
“Like if your shirt caught fire or anything I could put it out. It was the tights that… they came back to life.”
Matilda was trick-or-treating at a neighbour’s house when Claudia heard her scream. “I was talking to somebody, and then I just heard her scream,” Claudia said.
“She just screamed ‘Mummy’ and I turned around and that was that, she was just on fire.
“Everyone was screaming. She was screaming, all the kids there were screaming.
“It feels like she was on fire for hours but the surgeon said that definitely wasn’t the case and it was probably just seconds.”
Since the accident, Matilda has underwent several operations to treat her serious burns at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital."