TOWIE star Ella Rae Wise opened up about her time on Celebrity Big Brother during Friday’s episode of Lorraine.
Ella, 24, was evicted from the ITV show earlier this week and she joined host Ranvir Singh in the studio for her first TV interview.
During the chat, Ranvir, 47, asked Ella about Mickey Rourke, who left the Celebrity Big Brother house due to “further use of inappropriate language” and “instances of unacceptable behaviour” earlier in the series.
Mickey’s, 72, exit came following a previous episode where The Wrestler actor was issued a formal warning by Big Brother for “unacceptable language and behaviour” towards his housemate JoJo Siwa.
An ITV representative confirmed at the time: “Mickey Rourke has agreed to leave the Celebrity Big Brother House this evening following a discussion with Big Brother regarding further use of inappropriate language and instances of unacceptable behaviour.”
During his time on the show, Mickey also made an inappropriate remark to Ella, which left her uncomfortable and reduced to tears.
A distressed Ella headed to the Diary Room to express her discomfort at the time, saying: “He’s making me feel on edge. I’m a young girl. I’m not a piece of meat. He’s making people feel so uneasy.”
Ella told Ranvir on Friday’s Lorraine: “I just didn’t appreciate it, and that’s all it was. For me I just had distance from Mickey and that was okay. At the end of the day, it was one of those things and I didn’t appreciate what he said and that’s what it is.”
She added: “I’m just glad that I’ve never got to see him again!” to which Ranvir asked: “Do you think that’s how most people in the house feel?” with Ella claiming: “I think a few of us do feel that way, yeah!”
Elsewhere, discussing how it has been since leaving the house on Tuesday, Ella said: “It’s been good. It’s been nice to get back to reality, see friends and see family. It’s been nice to be home.”
She continued: “For me, I am so close to my parents and so close to my friends and being out of source with the outside world, it was a hell of a lot – so that was really overwhelming for me.
“And obviously, living with people, I have never lived with that many people before at all in my life so that took a lot for me to get my head around…
“I’m quite an emotional person so to be vulnerable in situations like that, I sort of thought ‘am I crying too much?’ but I was just being me.”
She added: “I didn’t expect it to be as hard as what it was!”