Celebrity Traitors’ Kenny emotionally opens up about being his mum’s carer for the first time

Kenny from The Celebrity Traitors has spoken out about being a carer for his mum in an emotional new podcast with Amol Rajan, and it’s a side of him we didn’t get to see on the reality TV show. 

The YouTuber and boxer, best known for being part of the internet collective Beta Squad, got right through to the final before being voted out by Romesh Ranganathan, James Blunt and Sebastian Croft. 

Following his success on the show, Kenny has spoken out about his upbringing for the first time, delving into what it was like growing up with “barely any money” in Watford and being forced to care for his siblings at just 18. Kenny’s mother struggled with her mental health, and he had to go behind her back to get her the help she needed. 

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“I’m a carer for my mum because my mum had to go to a mental health hospital.. around 2016… all I remember is my mum’s behaviour was changing. I was very helpless at the time, and I felt like I needed to do something about it. And I didn’t have anyone to go to help. And it was a thing where I had to kind of go behind her back to get help,” he said.

“Because, you know, growing up with your mum [as a single mum], you kind of feel like you owe her some sort of loyalty. Rather than doing stuff behind her back. So it was very hard to tell my mum she’s not well to her face, because she couldn’t see it. So I had to do it behind her back to get help.”

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After Kenny went behind her back to get help, some people came over to assess her, but he said it was “weird” because every time they’d come and assess her, she’d be “fine”. 

Kenny continued: “She used to have these episodes, right? And then one day it just exploded in front of them. They saw the full behaviour. And then straight away, she got sectioned straight away to the mental health hospital. Then I had to look after my siblings. My three younger siblings.”

The YouTuber said he felt like he was letting his mum down behind her back, but her knew he needed to do that “for her to get better”.  Kenny emotionally revealed he has blocked a lot of this period of his life out of his brain because it was so “traumatic”. 

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