I was on Love Island and I cried for an hour to show psychologists – I shouldn’t have been in there, says Matthew McNabb

FORMER Love Island star Matthew McNabb has candidly opened up about his time on the hit ITV2 show.

He admitted on social media that he cried to villa psychologists and in retrospect regrets going on the show at the time.

Matthew, 26, first rose to prominence on the seventh series of Love Island, which was eventually won by Millie Court and Liam Reardon.

But in a candid video on Instagram, he reflected on his time on the show.

He said: “I shouldn’t have been there in a way.

“It was like trying to take over being someone else’s boyfriend.”

The former reality star first entered the villa as a late entrant on day 29 of the show as part of the infamous Casa Amor twist.

During the subsequent “stick or twist” recoupling, he was able to stay with Kaz Kamwi.

However on day 45 of the show she decided to recouple with Tyler Cruickshank and Matthew was left single and unable to couple up.

He was then dumped from the show as Kaz and Tyler went onto reach the final and come in fourth place.

But Matthew says that the “imposter syndrome” on the show has affected him massively.

He explained: “It’s really weird because when you go into the villa you’re yourself, then you still come out the same person, but it’s completely different circumstances.

“What I found most difficult was knowing my position in life, even two years on I still have the difficulties of imposter syndrome,”

“I’m not going to lie, the first week in the villa I struggled a lot. I was thinking of my friend and wanted my loved ones around me. Meanwhile, I was wanting to be my usual happy, positive self to really show who I was.

“I haven’t told anyone this, but I met with the psychologist when I was in the villa and cried for a solid hour.

“She helped me so much and made me realise that this life is an adventure and with any adventure, there are ups and there are downs.”