Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Singer Cliona: Fans send me rude photos
DANCING With The Stars’ Cliona Hagan has admitted she gets sent rude photos from male admirers.
But despite all the attention, the single singer has said she can’t get a date.
The Co Tyrone country singer told the Mirror: “The messages of support are overwhelming.
“There are some people saying, ‘You’re beautiful’. Trust me, I don’t actually look like this because it is all make-up. It is crazy to get all of this attention.”
Cliona, 29, admitted some fans send her more than she bargained for.
She said: “When they send me their body parts, which I really don’t want to see, I block straight away. It is a shock to the system. Why would they think I would want to see that?” A BRAVE Belfast man has told how how he “died” after taking fake Xanax.
Hundreds of UK fatalities have been linked to misuse of the tablets or counterfeit alternatives between 2015 and 2017.
And a third of those killed by drugs in Northern Ireland have traces of Xanax or the fakes in their system.
Andy, 22, laid bare the impact the anxiety medication has had on his life during an interview for BBC’S Victoria Derbyshire show yesterday.
He said: “I was on a life support machine. I took a load of Xanax on Friday and I died. My heart stopped.”
But Andy is not the only one to have suffered because of misuse of Xanax.
Coroner Joe Mccrisken said Northern Ireland is suffering “an escalating crisis” in relation to fake versions of the drug, with nearly one alprazolamrelated death per week.
He added: “The deaths are a very tiny tip of what is a very huge iceberg.”
Xanax, which is only available on private prescription, is an anti-anxiety medication and tranquiliser.
But fake versions sold on the black market can contain other – sometimes