Content Warning: This article about Olivia from MAFS discusses suicide. If you or somebody you care for needs help or information about depression, suicide, anxiety, or mental health issues, contact Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636 or Lifeline on 13 11 14.
A shocking new video has emerged of Olivia making a “joke” about committing suicide because of the public backlash she’s as a result of her time on MAFS.
In the video, posted by The Wash, Olivia is approached by a cameraman while on a night out with her boyfriend Jackson and co-star couple Daniel and Carolina.
“I told the house AP [associate producer]: ‘I’m going to throw myself off the balcony,” And he was like ‘don’t say that’,” Olivia told the cameraman.
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The revelation was met with a shocked reaction from the man filming who asked, “you were saying that as a joke, right?” Jackson chimed in adding, “That is a very strong thing to say.”
Olivia replied: “Yeah, but I was like seriously distraught”
The cameraman doubled down, asking Olivia whether she had suicidal intentions. “I was not suicidal. But, it was like, I was that upset and then they just, like, completely did everything against what the psychologist had told me,” Olivia responded.
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Elsewhere in the interview, Olivia explains that she wanted to quit the show that day, and a psychologist reassured her that she wouldn’t be separated from Jackson if she stayed.
“The whole [storyline of] me having a meltdown because Jackson was gone for a night. Yeah, I was freaked out that he was gone for the night because the day before I wanted to go home, but the psychologist behind the scenes told me, ‘it’s ok you’re with Jackson, you just have a good weekend with him,” Olivia said.
She added, “The after the psychologist told me that [producers] took Jackson, took my phone, took my laptop and left me in a room by myself after I’d been saying, ‘I will throw myself off this balcony’.”
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