Below Deck star almost jumped overboard to escape ‘intense’ 18 hour filming days

Below Deck star Hayley De Sola Pinto spoke to Daily Star about her time on board and admitted that she once felt like “jumping ship”.

The reality star opened up about the gruelling 18 hour days she experienced while filming for the Bravo show and how it affected her mentally.

She recalled her first day: “The day started and it was non stop. Honestly, the first day, we worked 18 hours. I felt like I’d been put in a washing machine!

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“The next day was also a very long day because we picked up the charter guests. I remember on day two, I was hiding in the toilet for about five minutes, ringing people and being like: ‘I can’t do this, I cannot do this, I don’t know who I think I am!”

Hayley then confessed: “Day two, I was seriously considering jumping ship, quite literally!”

“I’d forgotten everything I’d ever known and there was this camera crew following us around, it was incredibly intense.”

The Bravo star then explained that the camera crew were everywhere and she was being filmed most of the time, something she wasn’t used to dealing with.

“I was sh***ing myself! I swear to god, on this boat, I saw all the cameras and I was like: ‘Oh my god, this is happening!’ All I’d been thinking about for the four months before. I was so overwhelmed.”

Things got a bit much for Hayley as she began to settle into Below Deck life and she admitted that when she was on her own, she began to question “what she was doing there”.

“I hadn’t been on a boat in so long, it all just kicked in. I was so worried about the TV show I forgot about the job!”

“I was like: ‘Sh**, I have to do some work!’”

Before going on the boat, Hayley “had some experience but not much” and confessed that “before filming for the show”, she actually “hadn’t worked on a boat for four years”.

“There are ways to be rusty and going on a television show was not the place! I don’t know what I was thinking!”

“I was definitely rusty, but even before when I had worked on the boats, I’d only done temporary work. Stewing work, not seasons, not four to five months straight. It was three weeks, two weeks, one week.”

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