Hello all!

I am new here. Decided to make a post here because i don't know what to do. I finished my MSc in january after 2.5 years. Stayed for 4 more months finishing a paper. Didn't even consider coming home for christmas to stay working. Anyway, i have been aplying for PhD's and it turns out that this super interesting professor wanted to work with me. I told him he could talk to my previous supervisor about me as i was sure that she would say good things. I was wrong. Because of what she said he won't accept me. She said i know nothing about controls or statistics (this was true at the beginning of my MSc -not anymore), that i am not good for lab work (how would she know if she never saw me working), and that my english skills leave much to be desired (she didn't even read my thesis before my defense and my committee gave me a very hard time for it). She said such terrible things about me that this prof even asked me if i should be working in a lab. I had told my previous supervisor i wanted to do a PhD and she should have said something instead of bad mouthing me. I want to send her and email but don't know what to say... I am devastated, and honestly thinking about leaving science for good...