I ran away with a gypsy boy – he bought me gifts & I didn’t need to work, but it’s not all it’s cracked up to be
A WOMAN has revealed her story of how she ran away with a gypsy boy at the age of 17.
Grace explained her relationship in detail whilst filming herself doing a makeup tutorial at the same time.
The non-traveller, who goes by the name of gracesteer on TikTok, shared the story to her 43k followers and it has since been liked over 390k times.
In the video, she says: “Story time about when I ran away at 17 years old to be with a gypsy boy.
“First off, before I start I just want to make it very clear that I don’t hate travellers. I’ve got a lot of messages saying I’m a racist and I’m whatever.
“I don’t hate travellers, I just hate my ex boyfriend.
“So I’ll start it off with how we first met. We were basically in the town that we used to live in, he just saw me and I was just doing my shopping and we didn’t know each other.
“He came up to me and said, ‘I think you’re fit, you’re going to meet me at this place at 8pm for dinner.’
“I was like ‘mm, this guys got balls, I like that’ and I said, ‘Ok give me your number and I’ll be there.’
“The date went really well, and we went on quite a few dates. It all went really well, he bought me gifts, he was really kind to me and yeah he treated me better than anyone had ever treated me before.
“So after a couple of months, he was like to me, ‘would you like to live with me and my family, on our plot or whatever, you don’t need to work, you can just live your best life and do college.’
“And I was like, ‘yeah, perfect.’
“So I got my drivers licence and that’s when I moved into his and that’s when it really started going downhill.
“One morning I caught him taking these tablets, and I was like ‘what do you take your tablets for?’
“He was like, ‘oh, it’s my psychosis medicine’.
“He was like, ‘I’m a diagnosed psycho, didn’t I tell you?’
“I’m like, no, no you didn’t. So I went into his mum’s trailer and I was like, ‘hey girl, no one decided to tell me that he was a diagnosed psycho.
“And she was like, ‘yeah, well, he’ll be fine. He hasn’t had an outburst in ages. Just keep him happy, and you’ll be fine.
“And me at 17, was like keep him happy? Easy peasy.
“So a few weeks went by and he was fine, everything was normal and then he started getting really agitated, like randomly agitated.
“And just being aggressive, and kicking off at everything and I was like, what is going on?
“It turns out this guy also has a drug addiction. It’s just the fact that this guy is a diagnosed psycho, he is also a drug addict.
“We spoke about it, and he was like ‘I’m really sorry, I’m going to stop. I love you.’
“And me being 17 was like, ‘yeah, it’s fine. Love you too. We are going to get through it’ and we booked a holiday to Turkey so I wasn’t going to miss out.
“So we are on our way to Turkey, and we arrive and the second we get there he goes, ‘Oh I’ve got to go and do something.’
“I said, ok cool. Thought he was doing a nice surprise for me. But it turns out he spent all of our holiday money on the first 30 seconds we got there on drugs.”
The video, which has been shared over 24k times, attracted over thousands comments with people sharing their thoughts.
Some wanted to clear up the meaning of “psycho”.
One wrote: “Just to let you know, psychosis doesn’t mean psychopath in any way shape or form, it’s a mental illness which makes you lose touch with reality, it doesn’t make you a psychopath.”
According to the NHS, the combination of hallucinations and delusional thinking can often severely disrupt perception, thinking, emotion, and behaviour. Experiencing the symptoms of psychosis is often referred to as having a psychotic episode
Others commented on their relationship with one writing: “I almost lived the same thing, but he wasn’t a traveller. I feel your pain.”
Another said: “Spending all your holiday money on the first night…my anxiety is going through the roof for you.”