Love Island hunk Marcel Somerville has revealed how the post-show trauma he experienced after appearing on the ITV2 reality-dating show and the racial abuse he received, left him ready to implode.
Series three star Marcel, who was on the show in 2017, exclusively chatted to the Daily Star during a Facebook Live chat last week.
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Marcel, who was close with Mike Thalassitis who was sadly found dead in a park in March 2019 after suicide from cocaine and alcohol use said that he experienced things similar to his pal.
He explained how it's important to have a good circle of friends around you if you appear on Love Island, before opening up further by saying: "I experienced something along the same lines as what Mike did before everything happened."
Adding that "when you feel like everything is crashing in, because at one point I was like going through a mad breakup, my nan passed away, I got robbed – all of these things, and trolls."
Marcel went on to say that if it wasn't for his friends and his mum and the people who told him that it would all be okay, he would have "imploded" from the cruel racist trolling.
"If I didn't have that and I was trying to put on a brave front, I probably would have imploded as well," he revealed.
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He also offered advice to people appearing on Love Island, and explained that he recommends having good people around you and trying hard "not to get sucked into the social media element of your fame".
Touching upon trolls interfering with you via social media, he went on to reveal: "I was getting sent racial abuse, I was getting sent all kinds of stuff."
*Love Island airs weeknights and Sundays on ITV2 and ITV Hub at 9pm, with Unseen Bits airing on Saturday
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