Sobbing Adam Thomas reveals cruel lasting impact of I’m A Celebrity South Africa appearance
Adam was in tearsI’m A Celebrity star Adam Thomas has opened up about the cruel, lasting impact of his stint on the show.
Speaking on his podcast this week, Adam admitted he’s in therapy after being on the receiving end of David Haye’s ‘banter’.
I’m A Celebrity star Adam Thomas in tears as he reveals impact David Haye row
Much of this year’s series of I’m A Celebrity has been dominated by Adam and David’s rows.
The pair began to clash when Adam broke the rules by bringing chocolate back to camp after enjoying a banquet.
David later took umbrage with the fact that Adam felt too unwell to do a task. He complained that the Waterloo Road star is a “grown man”, and that he didn’t like “useless” people.
Adam eventually snapped back, telling David that he was his “problem”. David has since apologised, according to the actor.
However, despite his apology, Adam is still feeling the effects of David’s so-called ‘banter’, months on from his jungle stint.
Speaking on his At Home with the Thomas Bros podcast this week, Adam broke down in tears. The star admitted “it felt like being back in school”, being on the receiving end of David’s jibes.
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I’m A Celebrity star Adam Thomas breaks down
“It was like being back in school again, and although it wasn’t physical bullying or anything like that, and I’m not saying it’s bullying, but he was just mind [bleeping] me,” he told brothers Scott and Ryan.
“And I just never stuck up for myself whilst I was in there, and I was like ‘[bleep] bro, I wish I stuck up for myself’. That was beating me up more than anything,” he then continued.
“I’m not the same person, like I know for a fact I am not the same person as I was when I went into the jungle to when I came out. It’s changed me, and that’s no over exaggeration. I’m in therapy now because, like it’s [bleeped] with me mentally, because I just thought, ‘How is this happening? I’m a 37-year-old man’. Continuing, he said: “I’m like, ‘How am I letting some other person do this to me in here?’
“I think, in a different environment, on the outside, if this happened to you, you’d go, ‘Oh, alright, he doesn’t like me, I’m going to leave the situation’, but because you’re in an environment like that, there’s nowhere to hide. You just have to grin and bear it.”
‘I wish I stuck up for myself’
Continuing, Adam said that he’d asked his therapist why he’d been unable to stick up for himself. He was told that it was because he’d been constantly putting everyone else ahead of himself, not wanting to draw ‘attention’ to his own struggles.
Speaking about David’s swipes, he said: “I just took it, and took it, and took it, until eventually it got to a point where I was like, ‘I’m literally at breaking point here’. I remember saying to him, ‘I can’t talk to you anymore, bro, if you’re not going to apologise for what you did’, and I reeled off all the things that he did, and he knew exactly why he did it.
“I was like, ‘Are you not going to apologise?’ and he was like, ‘I was trying to teach you a lesson,’ and I was like, ‘I don’t need a lesson off, you bro’.”
Adam added that once David was eliminated, it felt like a “huge weight” was lifted and he could “finally breathe”.
The star added that David has apologised and actually has a “heart of gold”.
“I know he gives off this bravado but deep down, I know he’s a good guy. He really opened up to me, explained why he is the way he is,” he said.
