Amber Gill has credited 'Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins' with helping her to get into a "better mental headspace".
Amber Gill in 'better mental headspace' thanks to Celebrity SAS
The former 'Love Island' winner is "really grateful" to the Channel 4 show for transforming the way she thinks about life, admitting she hadn't been in a "very good mental headspace" before taking part.
She said: "['Celebrity SAS'] really helped my mental headspace - I think I just got a bit more clarity when I removed myself from everything that I knew to be normal and put myself in something completely different.
"It really transformed the way that I thought about life and I’m really grateful that I did it.
"I wanted to prove to myself because I don’t think I’ve ever been tested.
"My job is relatively nice to do and so I wanted to prove I was resilient.
"Before I went in, I wasn’t in a very good mental headspace and that was the tipping scale on whether I should do it or not. I’m so glad I did because it kick-started me getting into a better headspace."
The 25-year-old star was in "two minds" about whether or not to sign up for the gruelling series, in which stars endure military training, because she had "lost [her] way a little bit", but Amber is glad she did take part.
She added: "I believe in myself to the very end to do everything, but before this experience, I really lost that and I lost my way a little bit, so I was in two minds whether to do it or not, but then I did it, and when I came out of the other side, I was completely different.
"A lot of what I do is based on external validation. You want people to engage with your social media, you want people to like you and I think that all got a bit much.
"Normally I don’t care and I’d say what I wanted to say, but I just sort of lost that.
"I really couldn’t see a way out because it’s hard when I have to do it every day. I can’t claim I don’t care what people think, because I do."
Former 'EastEnders' actress Maisie Smith, ex-'TOWIE' star Ferne McCann, former footballer Ashley Cain, and pro dancer brothers AJ and Curtis Pritchard have also signed up for the series, in which ex-Marine Rudy Reyes puts the stars through their paces in his role as chief instructor.
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