SIX months ago Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu walked into the Celebrity Big Brother house with her profile rocketing. She’d just jetted back from the States where she filmed the reunion episode of The Traitors US. 8 I felt like my career was over, admits Ekin-Su after her stint on Celebrity Big Brother Credit: Euan Danks 8 Ekin-Su was so upset by the reaction that she didn’t attend the final Credit: Euan Danks But two weeks later, the winner of Love Island 2022 (with then-boyfriend Davide Sanclimenti ) became the fourth person to be evicted from the CBB house, after the other housemates accused her of being fake and playing a role.
She left to jeers and boos, and was so upset by the reaction that she didn’t attend the final. “I felt like my career was over,” she confides. “I was getting death threats.
I told my family I had been cancelled, packed a bag and left the country.” But rather than blaming others, the almost-30-year-old has spent the last few months in therapy . READ MORE ON EKIN-SU better than ever Love Island’s Ekin-Su takes swipe at ex Davide following bitter split “I made a wrong decision to go in there and I know that,” she says.
“But as much as Celebrity Big Brother was bad for me, I need to take ownership of how I was. I didn’t do enough research and didn’t expect it to be so intense. “I arrived jet-lagged with no sleep .
I wasn’t in the right headspace and I admit I wasn’t myself. I didn’t speak to anyone about Davide cheating on m.