‘I wanted to go home’: Dejon reveals he tried to quit Love Island and has massive regrets

After returning home and to normal life, Dejon has reflected on his time on Love Island and admitted at one point he wanted to quit the villa. Meg and Dejon had a rocky time on the show, and got lots of backlash from viewers about their behaviour.

Islanders who were on the show with them have called their relationship “staged” and the pair were called out a lot when Dejon asked Meg to stop talking during an argument, because the cameras were on them. In the end, the couple were dumped by their fellow Islanders, because they didn’t believe they’d last in the real world.

After leaving the show, Dejon has done an interview with MailOnline, and said he’s received loads of hate. He’s had death threats, and been branded a “narcissist”. As well as this, he’s reflected a lot on what the villa was really like for him, and times when things got too much.

“I was away for altogether 10 weeks from the beginning to basically the end. I was in a bubble with no phone and not knowing what was happening on the outside world,” he said.

‘The first thing that I did when I got my phone back was speak to my friends and family, but my phone was flooded with backlash and hateful messages. It got so bad that me and Meg have both decided to turn the comments off, the messages we have both received are no good for our mental health.

“Everyone is coming for me online. I’ve had everything, death threats, racist comments, hateful comments, I’ve had everything you could think of.”

via ITV

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He admitted he regrets how he behaved at some points in the villa, and should have communicated better. But, when things were particularly bad with Meg and they were arguing, he said he just “wanted to go home”.

Dejon continued: “I do take full accountability for how I communicated at times in the villa. The girls who were on the show with me say I’m not a narcissist, I’m not a gaslighter, all of these things they have seen online, it means a lot to me because they spent 24-hours a day with me.

“I could have handled situations better but when it comes to being a ‘narcissist’ and these words, empathy is definitely something that I have, it’s something I had for Meg, for Harry, and when Meg was upset, I was there for her, and when Harry was upset it would break my heart.”

He added: “As the show went on, I felt very lost. I felt very confused. I wanted to go home, really and truly, many times especially when me and Meg were really good and I knew she was for me and I was 100 per cent sure that we would work on the outside world, I wanted to go home.

“The viewers will have seen me joking around but they won’t have seen that I have feelings, I have a lot of feelings, but it’s hard for me to show them. I usually deal with my feelings alone and I would cry alone in my room or by myself but when you’re on TV and you’re feeling upset and you know the whole nation is watching you but not only that, I’m living with people and there was no place to be by yourself and let things out.”

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