Love Island’s Zara McDermott has opened up about her near mugging and how her boyfriend failed to help.
The reality TV star was surrounded by four masked men in balaclavas who tried to break into her car after following her from a Westfield shopping centre.
Talking at the Ekin-Su Oh Polly launch, Zara said: “You know what to be honest because I got away, with my job I’m quite resilient, but I do think the reason I locked my car is that I saw someone else post about it.
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“And I saw other people saying to lock your car and I was like ‘oh my god’.
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“I read this thing where these guys track people down on Instagram and people on their phone and they follow you. I also saw this thing where groups of guys come when you unlock your car from a distance and they will just jump in your backseat.”
But has this made her anxious about going out alone? It certainly has her boyfriend and Made In Chelsea star Sam Thompson.
She said: “Well Sam was like ‘no more walking on your own in the dark!’
Sam jumped in to say: “When it happened, I was in the shower butt naked.”
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“He was like ‘stop calling me I’m in the shower’ and I was like ‘ohhh, Sam,’ she said while pulling a sad face.
Sam then defended himself and said: “I didn’t realise but there’s not much you can do when you’re starkers on the other side of town.”
Earlier in the week, Zara shared the news of her attack on Instagram and said: “I wanted to jump on here and talk about something quite serious that just happened to me that I am feeling really shaken up about, I’m a bit emotional.
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“And actually just a warning because I followed my own advice here. Obviously, you guys know that – if you’ve watched my stories – that I went to Westfield (shopping centre) today and I parked down a side street, which was about a 10 or 15-minute walk…
“Anyway within a few seconds of me putting my phone down I’m getting ready to go and I dropped my car key on the floor. So I bend down to pick it up and I look up and there are four guys surrounding my car most of which have balaclavas on.”
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
