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Former Love Island contestant Niall Aslam has spoken further about his departure from the series in 2018, amid his stress-induced psychosis.
Speaking to Marnie Simpson on the second series of her podcast Home Truths, the would-be reality star, 26, explained that the condition can make people 'actually jump off buildings', leading to the producers sending him to a hospital in the UK via private jet.
'I had gone in thinking: go in and be me! All guns blazing,' he recalled, three years later. 'Everyone loved it. People on it thought it was an act. I am genuinely like that, but they thought: when is he going to chill out?
Ordeal: Former Love Island contestant Niall Aslam has spoken further about his departure from the series in 2018, amid his stress-induced psychosis
'People probably thought: this kid's actually like this… we have a problem!'
He went on: 'I left after 9 days. I went into something called stress-induced psychosis. It's a very serious condition and you lose touch with what's real.
'People have thought they can fly and actually jump off buildings. They have to put you in a psych ward to keep you safe!
'The producers told me to come with them and they said "do you trust us, do you trust us?" Then the next thing I am going to a doctor not knowing why. And it was stressing me out thinking: what's going on?
Opening up: Speaking to Marnie Simpson on the second series of her podcast Home Truths, the would-be reality star, 26, explained that the condition can
