KEM CETINAY EXCLUSIVE: “Chris Hughes saved me from a breakdown last summer”

The Love Island star's supporting our Where's Your Head At? campaign

Kem Cetinay

by Carl Smith |
Updated on

Afterthe huge success of our Where's Your Head At? mental health campaign last year, which saw our petition to get a mental health first aider in every UK workplace get to Number 10, we're taking Mental Heath Awareness Week as an opportunity to speak to some of our fave celebs about their experiences.

Today, we chat to Love Island 2017 winner Kem Cetinay explains how best friend Chris Hughes saved him from a 'breakdown' last summer.

Speaking to heat, Kem said: "In July last year, my mental health was really bad and I just couldn’t really deal with it. It all just got on top of me at one point.

"I had a bit of a breakdown one day and I said to my mum and my dad and my brother, everyone, 'I need to take a few days off. It’s all just got too much; I need to sort my head out first before I look at doing any work or anything.'

"My brother, without telling me, messaged Chris [Hughes] and said 'Kem’s really struggling, he’s in a really bad place at the moment, he’s not talking to anyone, what shall we do?'

"So Chris drove all the way down from Cotswolds where he lives and he was like 'look, we need to do something, what do you want to do, what do you really fancy doing?' and I said I just want to get away from everyone and just chill out, just us."

WATCH Kem open up about his mental health below:

Kem continued: "We went to Center Parcs and they were trying to do everything to cheer me up. It was working, but I was still really down.

"I remember he bought a Batman and Robin outfit; I think he was Batman and I was Robin, he insisted that we were going to drive around Center Parcs dressed as Batman and Robin and knocking on people’s doors."

LISTEN to our Where's Your Head At? podcast series below:

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.

Just so you know, we may receive a commission or other compensation from the links on this website - read why you should trust us