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Yoshitaka Kono\/PA<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nTulisa Contostavlos says she’s been feeling “overwhelmed” since leaving I’m A Celeb and was taking a break to focus on her mental health. <\/p>\n The N-Dubz star and former X-Factor judge was the third contestant to be voted off the ITV show.<\/p>\n Speculation swirled when she removed all of her Instagram posts about the series and failed to appear on spin-off show I\u2019m a Celebrity\u2026 Unpacked.<\/p>\n But in an Instagram video, Tulisa says she’s “getting a lot of attention” which has been difficult to deal with.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “A lot of bombarding, in all the most positive way but because it\u2019s been a bit of a while for me, I can get overwhelmed quite easily,” the Sight of You singer says.<\/p>\n “I just need to take a bit of time for me and just chill and this is all just feeling a little bit much at the moment.”<\/p>\n Tulisa also says she’s decided to archive all of the posts which were shared on her behalf while she was on the show, calling them “random” and “not the way I would do my Insta”.<\/p>\n “When the time is right and I\u2019ve had a little time to process, I\u2019m going to make my own reels of my best bits that I really like,” she says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Addressing an appearance on ITV’s Lorraine, Tulisa also clarified comments which appeared to suggest some of her campmates were “fake”.<\/p>\n “I don\u2019t think any of my campmates are fake,” she says.<\/p>\n She says she was “thinking out loud” and had only meant to suggest some friendships would be stronger than others. <\/p>\n “I love my jungle buddies, I love my jungle fam.<\/p>\n “But friendships that people have really, really get nurtured and they become something that\u2019s like, ‘wow this is a friend for life’.<\/p>\n “That\u2019s all I was trying to say.”<\/p>\n Being in the jungle with people she had only just met, she says, had been difficult for her as “an introvert”.<\/p>\n “And then I come out and I\u2019ve seen loads and loads of attention and I\u2019m like, woah this is a lot.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The 36-year-old from London made her name in the 2000s as part of N-Dubz before launching her solo career and later appearing as a judge on X-Factor in 2011.<\/p>\n She largely stepped back from the public eye when, in 2014, charges were brought against her after an undercover reporter from The Sun claimed she’d brokered a deal to supply Class A drugs.<\/p>\n The drugs trial collapsed<\/a> after the reporter was found to have lied in his evidence and Tulisa told Newsbeat at the time<\/a> it was a real low point in her life.<\/p>\n She’s also spoken about being diagnosed with Bell’s Palsy – a type of paralysis that temporarily affects the ability to control the facial muscles – and having surgery and fillers when the condition made her face “drop”.<\/p>\n In her video, she says she was still “trying to overcome” the challenges in her life, after being “out of the spotlight for a long time”.<\/p>\n “I\u2019ve still got my little demons.<\/p>\n “It doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m going to hide back under a rock for another 10 years, it just means I need a little bit of time to just process and get right with my thoughts.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Earlier in the series, Tulisa shared with her campmates that she identified as being demisexual<\/a> and needing “to have a really close emotional bond with someone” before she finds them sexually attractive.<\/p>\n She says since leaving the jungle, people had been talking about her in a “positive way” but she still found it hard.<\/p>\n “Mental health is important and I am super grateful for all the love and support I\u2019ve had.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m gonna have a week just becoming at one with my thoughts. I will be back,” she says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n‘I don\u2019t think any of my campmates are fake’<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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