'Perfect Match' star Georgia Hassarati says she's a 'depressed mess' amid social media backlash over her relationship with Harry Jowsey
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- Warning: Spoilers ahead for the season finale of "Perfect Match" season one.
- Georgia Hassarati is facing backlash over how she broke up with her costar Dom Gabriel.
- Gabriel said that they broke up after she went on a podcast with her now-boyfriend Harry Jowsey.
"Perfect Match" star Georgia Hassarati said she has become a "depressed mess" after receiving backlash over her relationship with "Too Hot To Handle" season one star Harry Jowsey.
Hassarati starred in the first season of the new Netflix dating show, which premiered in February, and ended up winning the series with her costar Dom Gabriel.
Last week, Hassarati and Gabriel were caught up in a public dispute on social media over the circumstances of their breakup, after Gabriel claimed that they had broken up because of Jowsey.
He said in a "Where Are They Now?" video posted by Netflix that they broke up after she appeared on a podcast with Jowsey that was titled "Georgia and Harry Jowsey Fell in Love!?"
Appearing on "The Viall Files" podcast to address the backlash, Hassarati said the situation has been "extremely hard to deal with," and she regrets publicly going at it with Gabriel over Instagram Story posts.
"I feel like I was just so frustrated seeing the way things were playing out online, and hearing people speak about me that had no idea about the relationship me and Dom had, or the relationship I'm currently in and having constant involvement in that. I acted out of emotion and I shouldn't have," the "Too Hot To Handle" season three star said.
"The weight to speak on this podcast has been so hard for me because I can't go online, I can't talk, I can't go outside, I'm a depressed mess. It's so sad because I haven't even been able to give my side of the story."
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On the podcast, Hassarati said that she and Gabriel broke up on the night they filmed the finale because they got into an argument after he allegedly lied about another contestant, Ines Tazi, having feelings for him.
They continued to talk after the show but Hassarati said the relationship naturally ended the day after she appeared on the podcast with Jowsey.
"It's just so unfortunate because it didn't go that way and we were both not happy the whole amount of time that we spent together and things were coming to an end," she said.
Representatives for Gabriel could not immediately be reached for comment.
Halfway through the podcast, Hassarati also directly addressed fans on social media sending her hate comments over the controversy.
"I see the messages. People think that I don't," Hasserati said. "Those messages are probably going to haunt me for the rest of my life. That people think these horrible things about me and think that I'm someone that is far from true. It's taking a toll that I don't think anyone can imagine, but I don't blame them."
She continued: "I know why they're saying that and they're coming from a place of protecting someone they think was done wrong and I see that. But there's two sides to every story."