Molly-Mae Hague says she's 'controversial' as she recalls infamous wealth inequality drama

Former Love Island prima Molly-Mae Hague has claimed radical 'find her controversial' aft she was slammed for her comments connected wealthiness inequality backmost successful 2021

Reality TV prima Molly-Mae Hague has claimed radical find her "quite controversial" pursuing her celebrated comments connected wealthiness inequality.

Back successful 2021, the Love Island prima was slammed aft she made immoderate arguable comments during her interrogation with Steven Bartlett on The Diary of a CEO podcast. She told the Dragons' Den prima however she's "worked her arse off" to marque her millions and claimed "everyone has the aforesaid 24 hours successful a day" to emulate her success.

Molly-Mae's comments went down similar a led balloon connected societal media with galore accusing the star, who roseate to fame arsenic a teen connected the ITV2 dating show, of being 'tone deaf' and not acknowledging the immense magnitude of privilege she has. Others rapidly dubbed her 'the new Margaret Thatcher.'

"You're fixed 1 beingness and it's down to you what you bash with it. You tin virtually spell successful immoderate direction," Molly-Mae said successful the infamous video successful December 2021. "When I've spoken astir that successful the past I person been slammed a small bit, with radical saying 'it's casual for you to accidental that due to the fact that you've not grown up successful poverty, truthful for you to beryllium determination and accidental we each person the aforesaid 24 hours successful a time is not correct.' But, technically, what I'm saying is correct. We do."

She continued: "I recognize we each person antithetic backgrounds and we're each raised successful antithetic ways and we bash person antithetic fiscal situations, but I deliberation if you privation thing capable you tin execute it. It conscionable depends connected what lengths you privation to spell to get wherever you privation to beryllium successful the future. And I'll spell to immoderate length. I've worked my implicit a**e disconnected to get wherever I americium now."

Fuming fans rapidly ripped her comments isolated online, with footage of Molly-Mae struggling to grip a 12-hour displacement astatine a PrettyLittleThing warehouse successful bid to spot however it worked going viral. Almost 3 years connected from the scandal, Molly-Mae has reflected connected her past comments.

Speaking to British Vogue about her notorious comments and the backlash, the mum-of-one told the publication: "Obviously, I meant perfectly nary malice oregon thing ill-intended by that remark astatine all. Would I person worded it somewhat otherwise now? One-hundred per cent, arsenic to not upset anybody. But you're not ever going to get it right, surviving your beingness successful the nationalist eye.' 'People find maine rather controversial."

Elsewhere successful her interrogation with British Vogue, Molly-Mae said her divided from her erstwhile fiancé Tommy Fury came arsenic "a spot of a shock" arsenic she had planned to wed him adjacent September. The pair, who met connected the deed ITV dating amusement Love Island successful 2019, announced they had divided successful abstracted societal media messages successful August, prompting speculation astir the reasons for their separation.

In her archetypal interrogation since the break-up, Molly-Mae said she "didn’t privation what happened to happen" but she inactive has "a batch of emotion and respect" for the nonrecreational boxer. The world TV prima and influencer, 25, said: "It was a spot of a shock, the circumstances… I didn’t privation what happened to happen."

She added that she wanted to get joined to Tommy "100%" and that "would ne'er person changed". Molly and Tommy, who were the runners-up connected Love Island play 5 successful 2019, got engaged successful July 2023. The brace welcomed their girl Bambi into the world successful January 2023.

In Molly-Mae’s Instagram station successful August, she said she was "extremely upset" to denote they would beryllium parting ways. Tommy posted a abstracted Instagram communicative little than an hr aboriginal which said helium was "heartbroken" to stock the news, adding that Bambi was their "priority".

He aboriginal described "false allegations" implicit his break-up arsenic "horrendous" and "heartbreaking". Following the split, Fury besides said helium would emotion Molly-Mae "til the time I die."

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