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Love Island’s Danny Williams says death threats left his family “powerless”
LOVE Island's Danny Williams says vile trolls who sent death threats while he was still in the villa left his family feeling "powerless".
Cops were contacted when the model's social media was flooded by cruel messages including some threatening harm.
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Speaking on Dan Wootton's talkRADIO show with Lizzie Cundy, Danny said: "A serious amount of trolling happened whilst I was in the villa, that was when police were contacted when I was actually in the villa.
"I'm not too stressed by it all, I'm coping okay, the way I see it when you put yourself on a show like this you have to be open to the interpretation by the public.
"It's more for my family's sake especially when they were sort of powerless whilst I was in the villa it was a very stressful time for them."
Danny, 21, from Hull, added: "The intensity of the a show has got people to such high emotions that they've been sending some pretty nasty messages and that kind of thing.
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"There were things like being added to group chats where people would collectively send threatening messages like coming to hurt you and that kind of stuff.
"And then obviously there's the odd singular message, just like petty little insults that don't really make any difference but when they're in the hundreds of messages daily it gets kind of annoying."
Police are still investigating and a child culprit was tracked down by Danny's team.
He continued: "It's quite a long process. There was an incident where there was a kid sending some horrible messages and we got in contact with their school and the school disciplined the kid.
"There is ways around combating these issues definitely."
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It comes after former Love Islander Mike Thalassitis tragically took his own life early this year.
Danny, , said: "Luckily I'm not going to get too phased by negative comments because I'm still a very happy boy I do consider myself a very lucky person in general.
"But if these messages are going to a certain type of character, someone who would overthink these things, the outcome is unpredictable and you never know what that person might end up doing.
"All it takes is potentially one really horrible message for you to go and feel really bad about yourself and go down a really not a nice path.
"If I'm receiving these messages then who's to say other people aren't as well?"
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He added: "ITV do provide after care they call it where you're in contact with a psychologist and if you've got any issues you want to raise there's somebody to speak to and there is a follow up program definitely.
"But there's a certain element of nothing can quite prepare you for going on a show like this and coming out to the exposure you're open to, as much as ITV do a great job there's a certain element of surprise that you can't actually prepare yourself for to be honest."
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