( CNN ) -- The two Australian radio personalities who made the prank phone call to a British hospital caring for the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge made tearful apologies Monday for making the call , which may have led to the suicide of a nurse who spoke to the pair . Mel Greig and Michael Christian , both crying at times , told two Australian television shows Monday that their thoughts are with the family of Jacintha Saldanha , the 46-year-old nurse who put the prank call through to the ward where the duchess was . Saldanha apparently committed suicide Friday . `` I 'm very sorry and saddened for the family , and I ca n't imagine what they 've been going through , '' Greig said on the program `` Today Tonight . '' Christian described himself as `` gutted , shattered and heartbroken . '' `` For the part we played , we 're incredibly sorry , '' Christian said on `` Today Tonight . '' The pair said the idea for the call came out of a production meeting before their 2DayFM show , the idea being to capitalize on what was the hottest topic in the news , Catherine 's pregnancy . The prank has drawn public outrage , which has snowballed since the nurse 's death . `` This death is on your conscience , '' reads one post on 2DayFM 's Facebook page . Several posters accused Greig and Christian of having `` blood on your hands . '' But in their interviews Monday , both stressed that while they made the call to King Edward VII Hospital , they did not have a say on whether it went to air . The call was recorded and then went through a vetting process at their network , Southern Cross Austereo , before it was broadcast , they said . `` This was put through every filter that everything is put through before it makes it to air , '' Christian said in an interview with the program `` A Current Affair . '' But Christian said he did not know what that vetting process entailed . `` I 'm certainly not aware of what filters it needs to pass through , '' he said . `` Our role is just to record and get the audio , '' Christian said . Greig and Christian said they never expected the prank call to be successful . Death casts glare on 'shock jocks ' Posing as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles , the pair said they thought their bad accents would give them away and whoever answered the phone at the hospital would hang up on them . `` We wanted to be hung up on with our silly voices , '' Greig said . `` We assumed that we 'd be hung up on , and that would be that , '' Christian said . But they were put through to the duchess 's ward and given some details of her medical condition . `` It was never meant to go that far . It was meant to be a silly little prank that so many people have done before , '' Greig said . It was Saldanha who put the call through . `` If we played any involvement in her death , then we 're very sorry for that , '' said Greig , who described how she found out about Saldana 's apparent suicide . `` It 's the worst phone call I 've had in my life , '' she said , fighting tears . `` There 's not a minute that goes by that we do n't think about her family and what they must be going through , and the thought that we may have played a part in that is gut-wrenching , '' Greig said . The pair have been taken off the air by their network , which has not said when they might return . `` I do n't even want to think about going back on air , to be honest , '' Greig said . `` I 'm still trying to make sense of it all , '' Christian said . `` We 're shattered . We 're people , too . '' Greig said she 'd willingly face Saldanha 's family if it would help bring them closure . `` If that 's gon na make them feel better , then I 'll do what I have to do , '' she said . `` I 've thought about this a million times in my head , that I 've wanted to just reach out to them and just give them a big hug and say sorry , '' Greig said . `` I hope they 're OK , I really do . ''
' Christian says he 's ` ` gutted , shattered and ... '' It 's ` ` gut - wrenching '' that the call apparently led to a nurse 's suicide , ' Greig says . The pair says the decision to air the alleged phone call was not theirs .