Tulisa Contostavlos 'forced to flee I'm A Celebrity' as she lays bare secret health battle
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Tulisa Contostavlos has told how she suffered a secret anxiety attack in the I'm A Celebrity camp - and headed to the UK because she felt like she was "having a breakdown" if she stayed in Australia. The 36-year-old singer and former X Factor judge speaks bravely and honestly in an emotional podcast interview this weekend.
And fans listening will get the full story of her life including the latest chapter spent in the jungle and what really happened during the aftermath, when she headed home with ITV's full support. Tulisa had gone into I'm A Celebrity telling the Mirror she hoped it would be part of her "healing journey" and "like therapy", But the show was harder than she realised and Tulisa admits she even considered quitting the show.
Tulisa said: "Some of the things you didn't see, I had night terrors for the first four days. I was waking up out of my sleep, and I was having anxiety attacks. Those parts, not everyone knows, so it wasn't completely smooth sailing for me at all, but I have a great poker face.
"I really can turn it on and especially when I'm faced with adversity. The last thing I wanted to do was go in there and be the hot mess. So if anything, I'm going to be the biggest soldier there is. So as soon as I'm set with a task and I'm going in and jumping out of a plane, I'm going to look like a warrior, because that is what I do. I might sit and cry under the sleeping bag, that’s also a part of who I am.".
Referring to the problems she faced, she added: "I mean, I did cry on the VT at one point, but I definitely had an anxiety attack off-camera, because I went to the smoking area to do it and even then, I didn't want them to know that I was having an anxiety attack, so I was trying to bring down my heart rate, literally through my nose.
