Love Island star Jacques O’Neill reveals what happens after you quit the villa

LOVE Island star Jacques O’Neill has opened up about what happens when you decide to quit the biggest dating show on television.

The professional rugby player has told how he decided to leave the villa after struggling with his mental health and ADHD.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun he has revealed exactly what happened after he made the decision - including being denied his phone and kept in a separate apartment with security guards.

After walking out of the villa - and declining producers’ attempts at getting him to return once more, Jacques was whisked away to a separate apartment.

There he stayed for two days without contact with the outside world.

Instead there was a security guard and two producers monitoring him.

It was two days before they reunited him with his phone, he says, and allowed him to speak to his mother Janet Wright, 60. 

And finally on the Tuesday night he was allowed to fly home.

He was met by his tearful mother Janet at the airport and taken back to their home in Leeds.

However during his time in the apartment, he managed to get onto the internet using the TV and search his name, sending him into the depths of despair.

He said: "They went to bed and I stayed off watching TV and there was a fire stick there and I thought I’ll just search my name. 

"And I wish I didn’t because the way I felt googling my name and seeing everyone hating me I didn’t know what to do with myself.

"I didn’t sleep that night I just stayed awake, because I was so scared of going out that villa and going home and even facing people in the street.

“It rocked me. It was really scary. I was up till six in the morning, but in the end I had to knock on one of the producers’ doors and just have a cuddle from them, because I just felt awful about myself, and I just wanted someone to tell me it was going to be OK. 

“I just felt like it was all negative and everyone hated me.

“I didn’t have suicidal thoughts but I did want to go into  hiding for a bit because I was scared of people seeing me. 

“I have minutes and hours when I feel down and there is nothing for me.”