Georgia Steel received death threats when she appeared on 'Love Island'.
Georgia Steel opens up on the social media trolling she received when she appeared on Love Island
The 25-year-old TV star shot to fame when she appeared as a contestant on the hit ITV2 dating series in 2018 but returned for the 'All Stars' version earlier this year and explained she has no idea how she "got through" the trolling the first time round but has learned to deal with it better now.
She told OK! Magazine: "The first week when I came out [of the villa], it was really overwhelming. I don’t know how I got through it when I was 19. I think I dealt with it a bit better this time around, because I’d done it before. But there was intense trolling while I was in the villa this time, so I just took some time away from social media and spent time with my family.
"The first thing I asked them was, ‘Do you really feel like I did anything wrong in the villa? Could I have done anything better?’, but they said I didn’t. It feels a bit wrong because the boys would be doing those things, but for a girl to get to know multiple people at the same time, it was so frowned upon.
"I feel that it’s double standards. But I also feel like, as long as my family and friends are fine, and what they considered I did in the villa was OK, that’s all that really matters to me.
"It’s not nice to get horrible comments and death threats."
The former 'Celebs Go Dating' star - who initially coupled up with Sam Bird during her initial appearance on the show - emerged from the 'All Stars' series with Toby Aromolaran as her new boyfriend and worried that upon leaving the villa, he would see all the comments online about her but "appreciates" that because they are both in the public eye, he takes her at "face value" rather than instantly believing what is online.
She said: "When I came out, I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, Toby is going to be reading all of these horrible comments – how awful. He’s going to be thinking that he doesn’t know the girl he’s with.’ But, luckily, he understands this industry and he knows to take people at face value, which I appreciate."