Love Island star Zara McDermott has opened up about how she heartbreakingly considered suicide after being blamed for being the victim of a vile revenge porn incident.
The former government worker has told how teachers didn’t know how to handle the incident which occurred when she was just 14-years-old.
Zara says teachers ‘blamed her’ for how things panned out.
Things got so bad for the youngster than she even thought about how she would end her own life.
Zara candidly told The Times: “People don’t realise when something like this happens, it affects the whole family.
“My teachers just washed their hands of me.
Zara McDermott has opened up about considering suicide after a vile revenge porn attack (Image: zaramcdermott/Instagram)
“Drilling it into me, constantly blaming me. Do you know what that does to a young girl?”
Zara alleges the boy who circulated the intimate images of her escaped with no punishment.
Her former school, Coopers’ Company and Coborn School, now insist that they have “specific policies for peer on peer abuse and clear procedures for sexting incidents”.
Zara continued to the publication that she remembers thinking “‘How would I do it?’”.
Zara says she even thought about ‘how to do it’ in her darkest moments (Image: zara_mcdermott/Instagram)
She added: ” I never want to go to that place again.”
After she left Love Island in 2018, Zara once again saw her world turned upside down after private images of her circulated online.
She cites dealing with an intimate leak and a new life in the public eye was one of the hardest things she’s ever had to deal with.
Zara McDermott is now happily dating Sam Thompson once more (Image: zaramcdermott/Instagram)
“Notably, when I came out of Love Island, and came out to images of me, what felt like, circulating around the whole world,” she continued.
“It was one of the hardest things I went through in my whole life.”
Determined to used her awful experiences to help others, Zara will now cover the often taboo subject in a BBC documentary.
She is set to give an “emotional and raw” into the reality of revenge porn.
The TV special is slated for release on Tuesday February 23.
Zara’s documentary is the BBC’s latest celebrity fronted hard hitting documentary.
Little Mix babe Jesy Nelson won an National Television Award in 2020 for her hard hitting programme Odd One Out.
Meanwhile, Katie Price has been showed with praise for Harvey and Me – a documentary following her and her disabled son Harvey Price.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
