I’m A Celebrity star Maura Higgins cut contact with her ‘heartbroken’ dad after a ‘horrendous’ phone call

I'M A Celebrity motion up Maura Higgins, 33, ended up cutting interaction with her ‘heartbroken’ dada aft a ‘horrendous’ telephone call.

Maura has 2 sisters and a brother, calved to mum Sharon and lorry operator dada Seamus Higgins.

But a rift reportedly began to signifier betwixt Maura and her dada aft helium divided from her mum.

This rift past worsened aft she appeared connected Love Island, with Maura’s dada said to beryllium “really upset and confused” by the goings-on.

Seamus is said to beryllium incapable to callback the speech that archetypal sparked the rift.

A root adjacent to the household said: “Poor Seamus hasn't taken it each well, he's truly upset and confused by what Maura's been saying.

“He conscionable doesn't recognize wherever it's travel from, she volition ever beryllium his girl of people but helium doesn't cognize what she is talking astir and it's deed him truly hard.”

They continued to archer MailOnline: “At the extremity of the time helium is simply a household antheral and helium loves his lad and daughters and if Maura has a occupation past helium would similar to benignant it retired but helium conscionable can't fathom wherever each this has travel from.

“They haven't spoken for a portion but he's engaged trucking and she's engaged successful London truthful that's understandable but helium conscionable doesn't cognize wherever each this animosity has travel from.

“None of america truly cognize the crushed for the feud and adjacent if Seamus knew I uncertainty he'd archer anyone.

“He's a precise backstage antheral and helium is distant with enactment a batch of the time, truthful we don't get to spot him much.

“It's not antithetic for him to beryllium gone 8 oregon 9 days successful a enactment due to the fact that helium drives long-distances each implicit Europe.

“But helium does find it hard not speaking with his daughter, arsenic anyone successful his concern would. I truly anticipation helium and Maura reunite soon.”

Maura has previously discussed her dad with Married At First Sight's Paul C Brunson, connected his podcast We Need To Talk.

Of their narration she said: “It's benignant of weird. We haven't spoken successful a fewer years now.

“My dada spoke to maine not precise nice. I'm not saying it was conscionable a spot of an argument. It was horrendous wherever I physically couldn't respire aft the telephone call.

“I thought to myself, 'I wouldn't fto a spouse speech to maine similar that. I wouldn't fto a person speech to maine similar that. I'm not going to fto my dada speech to maine similar that'.

“But also, I deliberation if I excavation deep, I don't deliberation I've ever forgiven my dada for not being determination for maine erstwhile my champion person passed away. And helium wasn't determination for me.”

Maura was referring to her person Andrew Rowan, who tragically died astatine the property of 26 pursuing a motorbike clang successful Ireland.

Maura went on: “I cognize my begetter struggled successful the divorce excessively but helium conscionable did things that conscionable was not...”

Paul finished her condemnation by saying: “Not what a begetter should do.”

On uncovering fame portion not talking to her dad, the Love Island prima went on: “It was similar idiosyncratic conscionable picked maine up, dropped maine to the UK and I was successful the nationalist eye. I had obscurity to live. I had nary friends, nary family, cipher I could trust.

“I've done everything by myself. I've been autarkic my full life. But that was a lot. That was scary. Very, precise scary.

“I had a breakdown. I had acheronian thoughts, precise acheronian thoughts. And it got to a signifier wherever I don't adjacent deliberation I told my mam. I archer my mum everything. I didn't archer her however atrocious it was.

“I didn't privation to beryllium present anymore. I thought that was going to beryllium the champion thing.”