Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has insisted she is ‘better than ever’ as she opened up about the backlash she received after her stint on Celebrity Big Brother.
The Love Island winner, 30, previously admitted she thought she was ‘cancelled’ after the other housemates accused her of being fake and playing a role.
She left the Big Brother house to jeers and boos, and was so upset by the reaction that she didn’t attend the final.
Ekin-Su has now revealed how, after turning 30, she no longer lets ‘the little things’ bother her and has learnt to take some ‘accountability’ for herself.
Speaking in a new interview with OK! Magazine, she explained: ‘In the last few months, especially around my birthday, I felt this shift between 29 to 30. You see things differently. It’s true what they say: things can change overnight.’
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Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu has insisted that she is ‘better than ever’ as she opened up about the backlash she received after her stint on Celebrity Big Brother
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The Love Island winner, 30, previously admitted she thought she was ‘cancelled’ after the other housemates accused her of being fake and playing a role (pictured in the house)
She continued: ‘I feel like life is so short, the little things don’t really bother me any more. That was the past and I don’t regret anything. I just smile at it now.’
‘I’m great. At the time, you blame yourself for things not going right, and you take accountability – I’ve used that word a lot: accountability – but now I’m kind of at the stage where I’m past everything. Backlash is just a part of being in the public eye.’
Ekin-Su entered therapy after the show and previously said that it was the ‘wrong decision’ for her to enter the house following splitting from ex boyfriend and Love Island co-star Davide Sanclimenti.
Ekin-Su and Davide won Love Island in 2022 and went on to date for 18-months, and ever had their own spin-off reality show, but their relationship wasn’t plain sailing after the Italian hunk was accused of cheating with an OnlyFans model.
The reality star went on to admit that she became ‘defensive’ in Big Brother whenever any of her housemates brought up ex ‘Davide, Love Island or OnlyFans’.
Speaking to Fabulous magazine in August she said: ‘I made a wrong decision to go in there and I know that. 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 me – I was lying to everybody about my mindset, but the public could see I wasn’t being honest. They were right saying that I was fake.’
Ekin-Su insisted she doesn’t have an issue with OnlyFans but the topic did ‘hit a nerve’ because she was ‘vulnerable’ at the time.
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She left the Big Brother house to jeers and boos, and was so upset by the reaction that she didn’t attend the final (pictured on Celebrity Big Brother: Late and Live in March)
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Ekin-Su entered therapy after the show and previously said that it was the ‘wrong decision’ for her to enter the house following splitting from ex boyfriend Davide Sanclimenti
Discussing her eviction, the beauty said she was ‘shocked’ her name was called and she ‘felt insecure’ when she was booed out of the house by the studio audience.
After the show, Ekin-Su appeared on Big Brother: Late And Live where she was grilled by celebrity panelist Layton Williams, who blasted: ‘Don’t blame it on the edit. We see what we see,’ while show presenter Will Best dubbed her ‘Ekin Boo Hoo Hoo’.
More than 130 people complained to Ofcom about her treatment on the spin-off show.
Ekin-Su said she was ‘disappointed’ in Layton as she was a fan of his before and felt ‘there was no need for him to turn on me’.
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