ITV I'm A Celebrity star Tulisa's ex speaks out after her comments on Bell's palsy

I'm A Celebrity campmate Tulisa Contostavlos discussed Bell's palsy connected a podcast occurrence released conscionable weeks earlier she entered the jungle connected the ITV show, which returned past week

Campmate Tulisa Contostavlos' bandmate and ex-partner Fazer has spoken astir her experiencing Bell's palsy whilst supporting her stint connected the caller bid of I'm A Celebrity.

Tulisa, 36, is among the celebrities connected the ITV show, which returned recently, and conscionable weeks earlier the launch, she had opened up astir antecedently being diagnosed with Bell's palsy. The NHS states that it's "temporary weakness oregon deficiency of question that usually affects 1 broadside of the face".

The singer-songwriter revealed connected a podcast, released conscionable past month, that she had filler to code swelling successful the look amid her acquisition with the condition. Her quality has attracted attraction and commentary successful caller weeks.

N-Dubz bandmate Fazer, 37 - whose existent sanction is Richard Rawson - is among those supporting Tulisa amid her clip successful the jungle. Fazer, who concisely dated her much than a decennary ago, told the Sun that Tulisa should beryllium an "inspiration to women" implicit her acquisition with the condition.

He said that it had been "heartbreaking" to see, adding: "At 1 point, T won FHM's Sexiest Woman. You've got to think, from that to having Bell's palsy and trying to hole it . . . it's a batch for immoderate female. That's wherefore I consciousness similar the nationalist should beryllium down T and accidental 'you cognize what, she's 1 of our own, and she's been done it'." He further described her arsenic a "f***ing fighter" and expressed "praise" to her successful the interview.

Fazer isn't the lone pal of Tulisa's to person defended her. Rylan Clark, 36, warned against viewers commenting connected her appearance past week. He tweeted: "Also earlier radical commencement going for appearance, Tulisa has been done a batch wellness omniscient the past fewer years truthful let's not marque s*** jokes astir her."

Prior to heading to Australia, Tulisa spoke astir her acquisition with Bell's palsy connected Olivia Attwood's So Wrong It's Right podcast. She said: "When I was astir 24, I had my archetypal Bell's palsy attack. So I sat astatine location and I had this monolithic burst of inflammation." Tulisa said it "went down to a definite extent" aft receiving attraction but past her "whole look conscionable dropped".

She recalled not being capable to determination her look and said it remained similar that for 7 months, during which clip she "hid successful the house". Tulisa continued: "As I was coming to the extremity of the 7 months, my look was inactive not close [...] I would spell and get fillers to effort and equilibrium retired the symmetry. So I'd beryllium similar right, 'if you enactment immoderate successful that feature to lucifer the swelling connected that feature and past if you enactment immoderate present to assistance this up truthful my articulator isn’t down there'. So you tin ideate the similar vicious cycle."

Tulisa said that she had 2 years without an episode, earlier noticing "low-level swelling" successful the aforesaid cheek. She said: "It started to get worse. I would person similar tingling sensations similar small ants crawling successful my face. [...] It was scary and past what happened was due to the fact that I had this low-level swelling, I past dissolved each the filler successful [one broadside of my face] and I would lucifer the inflammation by putting filler successful the different side. So you person this broadside swollen and this broadside is filler to lucifer the swelling."

She commented: "This went each the mode up until this twelvemonth [...] I'd person bully days and atrocious days, and I'm besides connected immoderate days, I'd instrumentality steroids, which would bring it down."

Tulisa said that she was aboriginal told that a fewer infected cysts had been recovered astir her cheek. She said: "So I fundamentally had these cysts that were sat each astir [my] feature and they were swelling up with infection." She added: "I came retired of the cognition and past instantly my look was little swollen."

She said that determination are inactive immoderate "shadows" connected scans and she continues to person "inflammation but it's mode less". Tulisa said that she's preparing to person the remaining cysts removed successful the aboriginal and volition "hopefully" beryllium "completely backmost to normal" then.

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