Love Island star George Fensom left me with PTSD, says distraught ex
AN ex-girlfriend of Love Island hopeful George Fensom says an abusive relationship with him left her with PTSD.
Katie Hewitt is the second woman to make such claims against him.
The allegations have heaped pressure on ITV to axe George, 24, from the dating show.
Yesterday former lover Ebony Keeley, 24, told The Sun on Sunday that he drove her to the brink of suicide during their two-year relationship.
Katie, 25, dated George for 18 months after meeting him in a nightclub in 2017.
She claims he controlled what she wore, cheated on her, and made her feel so worthless that she even stopped eating.
And she says the experience left her with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Katie, of Bedford, urged show chiefs to axe George.
She insisted: “ITV need to listen to us.
“We aren’t doing this to be vindictive.” Retail worker Katie said: “At the beginning it was lovely. But after six months I started to see how awful he was.”
She said he made comments on her appearance and would scream abuse at her in public.
Katie also thinks he cheated on her on a lads’ holiday to Zante.
She said: “That’s when I started to feel worthless. I lost my confidence, stopped eating.
“But when I asked him to be truthful he would instead accuse me of cheating. He gaslit me into thinking I was crazy so I would doubt myself.”
After George dumped her by phone in 2018 Katie refused to leave the house, saying: “I felt like I was a prisoner. I still feel I’m trapped in that hell.”
Katie, in a new relationship, said of George’s Love Island appearance: “He’s in there to get a brand deal and followers. I don’t think he’s capable of love as he’s a narcissist.
“I was terrified to speak out but I hope I can show why it’s important for women to have a voice and not let men like George win.”
George last week came under fire after homophobic and racist tweets resurfaced.
ITV stressed it has psychological, wellbeing and safeguarding checks in place for its “contributors” and spoke to islanders on a daily basis.
George’s family said: ”This is a one-sided account of a relationship George had six years ago when he was 18, and this is not behaviour we recognise.
“These claims are false, unjustified and hurtful.”