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Love Island’s Zara McDermott opens up about her revenge porn nightmare

The reality star has fallen victim twice

Zara McDermott  has opened up about how she suffered a complete ‘meltdown’ during her revenge porn hell.

The model beauty, best known for her appearance on Love Island during the summer, has fallen victim to revenge porn twice – once during her school days, and then while she was in the villa.

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, Zara recalled her experience in school, saying, “I didn’t know he had sent it round to other students until I was sat in class and a boy from school held the photo up to the window on his phone”.

“I remember having a total meltdown and the rest being a blur – it was a really dark time in my life.”

“The term revenge porn wasn’t around then, and girls were always seen as the ones in the wrong for sending the pictures in the first place.”

Then while she was on Love Island earlier this year, Zara’s ex leaked explicit photos of her, and she was completely unaware of the scandal until after she left the villa.

Defending her choice to send the pics, she said, “There are still people who say if you don’t want this to happen, don’t send a picture – but sending pictures isn’t a terrible thing to do. You just need to teach people to do it safely.”

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