Ekin-Su Culculoglu has detailed the time she hit rock bottom following her disastrous stint on Celebrity Big Brother.

The reality star, 30, starred on the ITV show in March 2024 and became the fourth person to be evicted, after the other housemates accused her of being fake and playing a role. 

And speaking on Jamie Laing’s Great Company podcast earlier this month, Ekin-Su opened up on the death threats she received after her appearance on the programme, admitted that it was the ‘wrong show, wrong time.’

The star also shared how the backlash had affected her mentally, with Ekin-Su noting that she’d spent three hours crying on the floor before eventually seeking help from a therapist.

Shedding light on the tough period of her like, Ekin-Su told how her road to rock bottom started with her split from her Love Island ex Davide Sanclimenti, before she then headed into the famous house while she still ‘felt worthless’. 

On hitting rock bottom, she told Jamie: ‘It was a few times actually, it was after I broke up from my ex because it was hard to beak up with him as I still loved him. I didn’t speak about it, my family knew but I didn’t speak about it. I buried that in me.

Ekin-Su Culculoglu has detailed the time she hit rock bottom following her disastrous stint on Celebrity Big Brother [pictured on the show in March 2024]

The reality star, 30, starred on the ITV show in March 2024 [pictured] and became the fourth person to be evicted, after the other housemates accused her of being fake and playing a role

‘Then I did the Traitors US and then I flew from LA to the Big Brother house… Wrong show, wrong time.

‘You know, I was gone at the time, mentally, I don’t think I was myself. Came back from Big Brother. Obviously, there was a lot of hate going on.

‘It was a very low point I felt because I already felt worthless going in the house, coming out to a lot of hate and death threats and people saying, you know, like, “you don’t deserve to be alive. I’m going to come and find you and kill you”.

‘Like all these really nasty things, like “you should be ashamed to be who you are. You deserve to be bullied”. It is triggering. It triggers things.’

On how she reacted, she continued: ‘And I was in my flat, and I was just sitting on the floor and just burst into tears for a good three hours, just crying, and I just felt like I didn’t know while I was like, touching myself thinking, “is this real? Am I? Is this fake?”

‘It was a really weird mind things I was going through, it felt like this whole thing wasn’t real’, with Jamie then noting that it was ‘disᴀssociation’. 

She continued: ‘And I felt like, what happens if I just went away? Surely that would be a good thing? Maybe I… I had weird things going through my head.’

Ekin-Su then went on to say that she was urged to seek therapy from a worried friend, with the sessions enabling her to turn her life around.

Speaking on Jamie Laing’s Great Company podcast [pictured] earlier this month, Ekin-Su opened up on the death threats she received after her appearance on the programme

Shedding light on the tough period of her like, Ekin-Su told how her road to rock bottom started with her split from her Love Island ex Davide Sanclimenti

‘It was a very low point I felt because I already felt worthless going in the house, coming out to a lot of hate and death threats and people saying, “you don’t deserve to be alive”

On how she reacted, she continued: ‘And I was in my flat, and I was just sitting on the floor and just burst into tears for a good three hours, just crying’

She informed Jamie: ‘After that one session, it kind of was like, “Right. You need to take yourself away for a week of self-care. Y

‘You need to switch off your phone and realise that Ekin, you’re you haven’t done anything wrong. Like the feeling is temporary. It’s not real. This depression, it’s not real. It’s not who you are.'” Took me a while to get out of it.

‘The therapist recommended I speak the truth because if you don’t tell the truth, you’ll always have that anxiety in you.

‘So, I eventually did, and that felt like a weight off my shoulders, but it’s hard, because people look at you, especially in the industry, and think you’re this amazing person.

‘You have everything that’s going for you, but is that the reality of it? It’s not – we’re all human.’