LOVE Is Blind UK’s Sam Klein broke down in tears as he admitted vicious attacks by online trolls left him feeling like he ‘didn’t want to be around anymore’. The 31-year-old design manager was branded a “villain” and a “walking red flag” by viewers of the Netflix dating show, with fans taking exception to comments he made about his would-be fiancé, Nicole Stevens. Sam has admitted he was taken off-guard by the overwhelming hate against him online, with relentless messages from trolls leaving him in an increasingly bad mindset.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun , Sam tells us: “The first few days...
yeah, the first few days I questioned everything, and I fell into a very dark place, I have to be honest. “I tried to be really brave and tell everyone I'm absolutely fine, but I spent a few days on my own in my flat, and just sort of locked myself in my room. “I tried to just tell everyone 'I'm fine.
It's going to be fine', but then it got to Friday, and someone from production welfare called me, and I just broke down on the phone. READ MORE LOVE IS BLIND UK “I was like ‘I can't do this anymore. I have to be honest, I'm struggling’.
” “I think in hindsight, I wish I did it on day one and I didn't wait three days to do it,” he says of speaking out. “But it's tough because if I'd actually committed a crime, or hurt someone, I’d get it. I just felt a bit hard done by.
” In the first batch of episodes, which dropped on August 7, Sam was seen “spe.