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Reality star Ekin-Su Culculoglu reflected on her trip to Turkey with the British Red Cross and admitted she contemplated adopting a child after a heartbreaking encounter with a girl who lost her mother.
The ex-Love Island cast member, 28, paid a visit to her home country in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake that killed 59,000 people.
She travelled in March with her partner Davide Sanclimenti, 27, and has since revealed how ‘moving’ and ‘traumatising’ it was for her to see her native home in such wreckage.
While there, she said she met many children who had been left without parents and remembered one particular little four-year-old girl who started calling her ‘mum’.
Ekin appeared on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday and told Susanna Reid and Ed Balls about her experience and how she struggled to leave the young girl behind.
She said: ‘I would love to take her.
‘It was traumatising – the whole experience. But once you bring one home you want to help them all.
‘I really just want to raise awareness. We don’t know how lucky we are to be in the UK.
‘She wanted me to stay and be her mum because she had lost hers. I couldn’t hold my tears in. It felt very overwhelming.
‘Some of the other children had also lost family members.
‘I wish I could have taken them back to England. They feel alone and need love and support.’
The star has family living in the country and is of Turkish descent having also lived in Istanbul for two years.
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She continued explaining the trauma the young girl – and the rest of Turkey – faced during the time of the natural disaster.
‘She doesn’t remember much of the actual event. It was 4am and all of a sudden it was black, everything was shaking, the walls were coming down and she was screaming, “mum, mum, mum” and she doesn’t remember anything else,’ Ekin revealed.
‘I think she has a little brother as well and that’s all it is, she just wants mum. Anyone who gives her love, she attaches herself and cannot let go.
‘I think she was about four, very young.’
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1.
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