Chyna: I had to hide from vicious trolls

STARRING on Love Island makes you a target for abuse, warns Chyna Ellis.

After last year’s series the 22-yearold was trolled so badly it left her depressed.

In an exclusive chat, she said: “I wasn’t expecting the amount of abuse I got. It was new to me.

“I was used to having my life private, but suddenly it wasn’t at all. People were saying things about my lips and my hair colour and they were saying I was nobody.

“It was awful. I stayed in my room for a week and didn’t speak to anybody. It just felt horrendous.

“I just thought, ‘Why don’t they like me? I’ve done nothing wrong’.

I was depressed because I saw so many bad comments and I didn’t know how to deal with it.”

Chyna was speaking out as a stark warning to this year’s contestants.

She added: “It wasn’t just me who experienced it – it happens to everyone who does the show.

“It’s an issue that’s not really spoken about but I wanted to address it. The thing is, nothing can prepare you for it, so I want the new contestants to know what to expect. “People need to be aware that it will happen. It is something that comes with being on the show. “Obviously you can’t please everyone so there will always be someone who thinks you’re not nice or that you don’t look the right way.”

Feisty Chyna has beaten the trolls by learning to ignore them.

She said: “Eventually I had to put it to one side and realise the people saying the mean things weren’t relevant to my life.

“When people are trolls it’s because they’re not happy with their own lives. “My family and friends were the biggest support. They said to me, ‘You went on there, you did your best, so ignore the haters’. “I took their advice and since then I’ve felt so much better about things.

“I’ve done The Ibiza Weekender and now when I get trolling it doesn’t bother me at all.”