Love Island babe Laura Whitmore has revealed she’s started ditching her phone in a bid to keep her mental health on the straight and narrow.
The blond starlet, who hosted the first-ever winter edition of Love Island earlier this year, explained that if you’re not careful, something can “suddenly cause you to spiral into darkness.”
Speaking at the BrightList Awards in London on Monday night, Laura said: “I think we’re still trying to get to grips with what mental health is… [and] identifying and finding those triggers that cause you pain or cause you happiness and work around them.
“That’s why I feel self-care is so important, if you’re having a really tough day or you know something suddenly causes you to spiral into a darkness.
“Trying to find that trigger and spin it around and do something you really like.”
Laura Whitmore says she has started to ditch her phone to look after her mental health (Image: Getty Images)
Giving her own personal tips, Iain Stirling’s girlfriend continued: “So, for me, it’s doing simple things, like when I get stressed at work or different things I’ll just take myself off to for an hour and a half and not be on my phone [sic].
“Because my phone could be a trigger, so little things like that everyone’s self-care is different.
“Some people meditate, some people find it really hard to meditate because they get distracted so it could be having a bath, watching an episode of friends, eating ice cream whatever it is.
“Just find those things that cause you happiness.”
Laura was showered with mass praise earlier this year for her professionalism in continuing to host Love Island in the days following Caroline Flack’s tragic death.
Laura made the comments at the 2020 BrightList Awards (Image: Dave Benett/Getty Images for All)
The Irish gal hosted the live final from South Africa barely a week after Carrie took her own life aged just 40.
Laura bravely hosted her BBC Radio 5 Live show the day after – telling listeners she believed it was the right thing to do.
Speaking at the start of her 10am show, Laura, 34, said: “I wish we were talking under better circumstances and I have been debating whether I should, or could, come on air today.
“But this isn’t about me. Yesterday we lost someone before their time.
Caroline Flack was just 40 when she took her own life (Image: WireImage)
“At aged 40 Caroline Flack made the decision to take her own life and I want to talk about it and her and give her the respect that she deserves.”
Fighting back tears, the brave star continued: “She was bubbly and for such a small stature, commanded a room. She loved to laugh and had the most infectious chuckle. She also had many struggles, I am not to pretend she was perfect.
“She lived every mistake publicly under the scrutiny. Caroline loved to love, that’s all she wanted.
“Which is why the show Love Island was important to her. The problem wasn’t the show, the show was loving, caring and safe and protective. The problem is, the outside world is not.”
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
