EYAL BOOKER EXCLUSIVE: “Love Island contestants are not the producers’ responsibility after the show”

He's supporting our Where's Your Head At? campaign

Eyal Booker

by Carl Smith |
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Love Island 2018 star Eyal Booker has opened up about his experiences with mental health in support of our Where's Your Head At? campaign; which aims to destigmatise talk around mental health issues and open up the conversation.

Speaking exclusively to heat about the aftercare reality TV contestants receive from producers, he said: "There's definitely an element of responsibility from the show, but I always knew that there was an open door of communication. They made that extremely clear to all of us and if I felt like I needed to reach out then I could reach out and there would be a support network there.

"They would check in every now and again, but we go back to our own lives. We're not their responsibility after that; and so it was down to my family and friends who could see if I was having a bad day and would come and say 'What's going on? Talk to me about this and you'll feel so much better.'"

WATCH Eyal Booker open up about his mental health below:

Discussing his experiences of social media, Eyal explained: "I try to do my thing and not look, if that makes sense?

"People's opinions have never really bothered me too much because I like to do what I want to do. Of course if you're sat there day in, day out reading the trolling and the malicious comments - because sadly social media is full of that - it's going to hurt.

"No matter how resilient you are, you're going to take it personally; but try and ignore it. Don't look at it or go searching for people's hate towards you because it's not going to do anything for your confidence."

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To get help on mental health issues and find out how you can support our campaign so that mental and physical health are given equal treatment in the workplace please go to www.wheresyourheadat.org.

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