She suffered night terrors and anxiety attacks not shown on camera

I’m A Celebrity star Tulisa Contostavlos has shared a hidden detail about her difficult time in the jungle.

Tulisa was the third star to be voted out. She has since opened up about battling mental health issues caused by the attention she gathered for her recent stint. The former X Factor judge was severely criticised for going AWOL after returning home.

However, now the N-Dubz singer has made another revelation about her life in the camp…

Tulisa has shared her struggles with social anxiety (Credit: ITV)

I’m A Celebrity star Tulisa shares camp ‘hiding’ place

The singer is a “massive introvert”, so sharing the camp with multiple people made her anxiety shoot through the roof.

However, the singer had found a little escape for herself in the jungle, where she sadly admitted to spending most of her time alone.

Whenever overwhelmed, Tulisa would go and “hide in the dunny”. The rest of the celebrities, aware of her social anxiety, would light-heartedly call the place of hiding an “Airbnb”.

She told The Mirror: “I would go and remove myself and go for walks or go and hide in the dunny. I spent 90% of my time alone.”

While she entered the show with the mindset that it was going to be a “healing journey” and would feel “like therapy”, the reality was nothing like she’d imagined.

“Some of the things you didn’t see, is I had night terrors for the first four days. I was waking up out of my sleep, and I was having anxiety attacks. Those parts, not everyone knows, so it wasn’t completely smooth sailing for me at all, but I have a great poker face,” she revealed.

Other than times when she broke down on VT, Tulisa would go to the smoking area to come out of an anxiety attack. Tulisa shared: “I was like: ‘Okay, get the heart rate down. Get the heart rate down.’ I wanted to leave that day.”

Tulisa would break down off camera (Credit: ITV)

Social media ‘detox’

Once the I’m A Celeb star out of the jungle, she spent her alone time at home watching her favourite films. She also used the opportunity to “detox from social media”.

She flew back home early from Australia missing the moment Danny Jones was crowned the King of the Jungle. The N-Dubz singer later took to Instagram to speak out about her finale absence as she was flooded with complaints.

Tulisa told her fans she was taking a little break to focus on her mental health and would soon return with her favourite jungle memories to post on her Instagram reels.