Gemma Collins has claimed that the stress of Dancing On Ice, and the drama surrounding her, caused a massive cyst to grow on her shoulder.
The former TOWIE star was slammed by Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield earlier this week, following claims that she had delayed rehearsals by taking a nap, and left the live show early because she was “bored”.
Speaking to The Sun Online, the 37-year-old said, “In the eight years since starting on Towie I have never had what has happened to me this week.”
“I have had nightmares, I have had non-stop dreams about my teeth falling out and when I googled it said it was stress related. I have woken up terrified thinking someone was in my house and screaming in the middle of the night.”
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“I even had a huge cyst removed off my shoulder last week that the doctor said was down to stress. This show has become blade wars.”
She continued: “People do not realise that I am human and there is only so much I can take, I am quite happy to laugh all the diva stuff off and it’s funny and it’s part of the GC. But what happened the last couple of days has been next level and nothing has ever broken me, but this came close.
“The tears have not stopped falling, tensions have been rising, my whole family has been so upset, even my little nephew has been in tears.
“The one person who don’t deserve it is Matt [her pro skating partner] because he works so hard but the severity of it all is I can’t sleep now because I’m having nightmares.”
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Gemma also addressed Holly and Philip’s comments about her, and the moment Love Island’s Kem Cetinay accused her of leaving the studio 25 minutes before the end of Sunday’s live show because she was “bored” – causing her to miss Mark Little’s exit.
She said: “I absolutely love Holly and Phil. I don’t know what went on there, they have been given false information.
“If I was in their position and someone said ‘this girl has left the show, she’s not turned up for rehearsals and that’ I would have said the same thing. I am not blaming Holly, I am not blaming Phil.
“I think deep in their hearts they know it’s not true. Holly said ‘ I love the GC’ and she does. Phil is always lovely to me. They are like legends on morning TV. I would never disrespect them or be rude to them. I want to be sitting in their seat that day!”
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She continued: “I feel bad for Kem, I don’t blame him – he says it was on his cue card so I need to find the person who put it on there – I have been like Mulder and Scully on this case!”
Despite this, she doesn’t regret missing Mark’s exit, as he allegedly told her to “f**k off” earlier that day after they got into a fight.
“I asked him how he was [after reports he was sexting another woman behind his wife’s back emerged] because I was being friendly but he took it the wrong way and he just snapped. Then he criticised my weight in an interview and I thought it was a low blow.”
Gemma added, “The hurtful comments that I have had and all the nastiness towards me and Matt when we have worked so hard has been really shocking to the point where I did want to quit because I thought this ain’t right.”
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“But we are not letting it stop us. I want to prove to everybody that you shouldn’t let anything stop you in life. It has not been easy. There have been laughs, and we have had lots of tears this week, but hopefully that will be the end of it. We are not letting it stop our routine.
“I have got an amazing routine this week and I should be buzzing about it but I can’ t because this has really has knocked my confidence.”
“We have got something up our sleeve this week and haters gonna hate because this is going to blow everyone out of the water and it is very, very spectacular.”
