Irina reveals Battle Camp was ‘traumatic’ and triggered ‘painful’ memories of Love Is Blind
She was 'blindsided' by her sudden elimination
Love Is Blind villain Irina has opened up about her time on Battle Camp, which released on Netflix this week, describing it as utterly “traumatic.”
Irina was “blindsided” by her elimination during episode two of Battle Camp, in which she discovered her fellow players had put her name on 13 out of 18 spaces on the elimination wheel, something she said brought back “painful” memories of Love Is Blind.
In an interview with People, Irina opened up about the elimination, admitting she was at an “utter loss for words.”
She described: “Honestly, I was at a loss for words,” she says. “I think it’s truly everyone’s fear — or mine for sure — is thinking that nobody likes you, nobody wants you here.
“Everyone went and voted you out behind your back while you were having a really incredibly hard, difficult day. I was so shocked.”
Irina admitted that before the elimination ceremony she “didn’t really talk to anyone” after having a hard first day at camp.
She explained: “I was really in my head, I was crying, I was in my room, I was reading all my notes from my family and friends and then finally I get out and I go change and stuff.”
Irina explained that she talked to her fellow players about who everyone might be voting for to be up for elimination, and started to suspect she was on everyone’s lists.
However, she assumed it was just because she was being “so in my head” and “really insecure.”
She added: “I felt like people were being weird, I felt like no one liked me,. And I was like, ‘Irina, you’re just in your head, you’re fine. No one doesn’t like you.'”
Once she realised she’d been voted off by her co-stars she recalled feeling “so hurt” and “traumatised” by the whole thing, saying: “Obviously she’s not the one that is on the wheel. I know it’s me,.
“And then I get up there and just remember thinking, I can’t be here. I feel so hurt. These are the people that I trusted and loved. And I know it was only a few days, but we did get really close and I just had to leave. This is so traumatic.”
She added: “So I basically walked off, I ran … and it was obviously really dramatic.”
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