Montana Brown apologised for making her “life look perfect” as she opened up about the dangers of social media.
The Love Island star opened up about her friend, Mike Thalassitis’ death and urged people to “be nice to your loved ones”.
“So this last week or so I have really struggled & had a long hard think about life/what’s important to me,” she began.
“Firstly, I am so truly devastated about Mike, I honestly can’t explain how sad I am but, I am learning to respect his decision & I will never know how much pain he was in but at least I know now he is free of pain & I did everything I could.”
“From the outside & from my viewpoint Mike had it all… literally everyone female and male I recognised what a catch he was. Now the reason that everybody thinks he has it all because that’s the part of his life that he chooses to share & really he is so much more. He is such an amazing human and I’m going to miss him a lot.”
The reality star went on to say that social media doesn’t give a realistic representation of people’s lives and added: “I was looking at is people’s perfect lives & that’s the point, life is not as peachy as everyone makes out.”
“People have depression, people have anxiety & people are hurting and I want people to feel like they can talk about it openly to parents, siblings, or friend. But the point is, nobody is perfect & life is definitely not perfect so I apologise to you if I make out like my life is perfect because it’s not.”
“What has been perfect, is my beautiful friends who have lifted me up, my amazing boyfriend who has emotionally been so stable for me, getting to know Mikes (sic) beautiful and wonderful family/friends.”
“I am just so gutted that this horrible awful death is the reason for all of this happening, but I have to take the good from what’s happened as overthinking is useless because it won’t change the outcome. What I can change is, the way I live my life & the way I treat others… that’s how people should be judged.”
Montana also told her followers to check up on loved ones and build them up.
“If everybody did this, the world would be a better place,” she finished.
The 23-year-old previously shared a heartbreaking post on social media following the death of Mike and said: “I’m so so sorry I couldn’t do more to help you. I have so much love for you Mike and I will never forget you.”