‘My life wasn’t in the best place’: Love Island’s Georgia Harrison reveals that she was once left HOMELESS and forced to sleep in her car as a teenager
Georgia Harrison has revealed that she was once left homeless and forced to sleep in her car.
The former Love Islander, 25, said she ended up sleeping rough as a teenager because she struggled to afford rent.
Speaking to The Sun, she said: ‘I was living in Marbella with a friend and this guy who would have really crazy parties with strangers coming in and out of our room in the night. It was scary.
Before finding fame: Georgia Harrison, 25, has revealed that she was once left homeless and forced to sleep in her car
‘In the end after a massive argument we had to leave but we had just given him a whole month’s rent. We didn’t have enough money to live somewhere else, so we literally moved into my car.
‘We had to wash in a nearby hotel. At one point security even caught us and said “we know you don’t stay here” and they chased us out, it was crazy.
‘I would go to work in a club all night, it was so stressful. One time I came back to the car to sleep and it had been towed with everything we owned inside. That’s the point I was at but I turned my whole life around within a year.’
The TV personality said she ended up using a self-help book, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, to turn her life around.
Worrying: The former Love Islander said she ended up sleeping rough as a teenager because she struggled to afford rent
‘When I first got The Secret my life wasn’t in the best place,’ she added.
Georgia, who believes that you get out of the universe what you put in, said she used the law of attraction to visualise what she wanted to achieve in life.
Georgia first found fame with a brief stint on The Only Way Is Essex in 2014 before becoming a household name with an appearance on 2017’s Love Island.
The bubbly reality star then gained an American fanbase when she starred in series 33 of The Challenge in 2018, reaching the final and finishing in eighth place.
Optimistic: Georgia, who believes that you get out of the universe what you put in, said she used the law of attraction to visualise what she wanted to achieve in life
The Challenge saw reality stars from around the world come together to compete in a series of physical and mental challenges in the hope of the scooping prize money.
During her time on the show she was involved in a tumultuous relationship with fellow Brit and Ex On The Beach star Stephen Bear, a storyline that dominated much of the series.
A year later, Georgia’s quest for love continued as she signed up to Celebrity Ex On The Beach.
She was previously in a relationship with Sam Gowland, who starred on the same series of Love Island as her and then went on to have an on-off relationship with Chloe Ferry on Geordie Shore.
Rise to prominence: Georgia first found fame with a brief stint on The Only Way Is Essex in 2014, before becoming a household name with an appearance on 2017’s Love Island (pictured)