Скачать или смотреть Iain Lee quit his career after being traumatized by Rebekah Vardy in the I'm a Celebrity jungle.

Rebekah Vardy has been branded a ‘bully’ and ‘obnoxious,’ by former I’m a Celebrity contestant Iain Lee, who claims that he suffered a mental breakdown after appearing on the show with her.

Mr Lee featured on the reality TV show in 2017 and claimed that the WAG made him ‘f**king miserable’ in the jungle and left him feeling so isolated that he was left in tears and had to go into therapy.

Vardy has found herself back in the I’m a Celebrity spotlight despite not being a contestant with a scathing newspaper column about the show in which she has reignited her war of words with Coleen Rooney, who she was locked in a notorious defamation trial with in 2022.In a series of barbed comments Vardy claimed she hoped Rooney is forced to 'eat penis or humble pie' in the jungle before more recently slamming BBC Radio 1 presenter Dean McCullough, for 'cosying up' to Rooney on the show in another blistering attack.

Vardy, 42 also branded hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly as ‘two small-minded men’ while describing Coleen as 'the gift that keeps on giving' after her canoe capsized during the celebrities' race to the camp.

Mr Lee, a former broadcaster and comedian, told MailOnline: ‘There are some people who love the notoriety of being outrageous and obnoxious because it keeps them in the spotlight. I think Rebekah Vardy is one of them.

‘When I was on the show, she bullied me and led a clique that picked on me. There were two occasions when I wanted to get out, it was so toxic and dark in there. I thought: “I can’t be with these people.” I don’t watch the show now because of what I experienced.’

Mr Lee claimed that the first words Vardy said to him when he arrived in the jungle, later than the other contestants were: ‘I think you’re a f**king t**t.’

He added: ‘I did a challenge and won. Ant and Dec then asked me to pick five people that would live in relative luxury for the next five days while the others would not.

‘I didn’t pick her and that made her angry. She came up to me, pointed at me and swore at me. It was very intimidating, and it didn’t make me feel very welcome.’

Recalling another occasion when he failed a challenge and burst into tears, he said that Vardy said to him: ‘Real men don’t cry.’

Viewers were left horrified by the bullying scandal that involved Vardy, Jamie Lomas, Amir Khan and Denis Wise, who were all accused of victimising Mr Lee.

He said: ‘They were all a clique and she [Vardy] led it. I never got any support from her or her group.’

In another incident, dubbed ‘Strawberrygate’, Mr Lee and boxer Amir won a treat after completing a challenge and both devoured a plate of strawberries and cream before returning to their campmates.

Khan later convinced them that it was Mr Lee’s idea to eat them when it was really his.

Mr Lee said: ‘That really p***ed her off and she gave me a huge tongue lashing. She was really angry and being really nasty. All these years on, people mention the strawberries incident to me and how I was treated.’He revealed that he was left so devastated by his treatment at the hands of Vardy that he had to undergo extensive therapy after leaving the show and that his experience prompted him to change career and retrain as a counsellor.

Mr Lee previously hosted a show on talkRadio and Jack FM.

He now works with victims of bullying and helping those who suffer from depression, anxiety and other mental health issues.

Mr Lee added: ‘My experience in the jungle led me to change career and become a counsellor. I started seeing a great therapist and work through what happened to me. When I came out of the show I was not all right. It sent me into a spiral of depression and anxiety. It really upset me.

‘I made it known that she [Vardy] made me f**king miserable and isolated when I was in the jungle and was a bully, liar and manipulator. But all that’s in the past now.’

He added: ‘I’ve been able to make peace with it all and put into perspective that the behaviour directed towards me was not my fault. I just never fitted in with what Rebekah Vardy’s idea of a man is. I had to go through this process otherwise it would have eaten me up.’Vardy has denied bullying Mr Lee and claimed after leaving the show: ‘You know what, I was the one that was being the most supportive of him. A bully? I’ve never been a bully in my whole entire life.’

She also insisted in a later newspaper interview that the claims were ‘false.’

Vardy added: ‘Edited TV looks a certain way. I don’t have anything bad to say about him.’

But Mr Lee hit back at her denials.