Love Island’s Amy Hart reveals she’s still in therapy nine months after Curtis’ rejection caused ‘low self-esteem’

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AMY Hart has revealed she’s still in therapy nine months after leaving Love Island – after being left with “low self-esteem”.

The 26-year-old was famously rejected by Curtis Pritchard during her time on the show and made the decision to leave rather than watch him crack on with Maura Higgins.

Amy Hart has revealed she is still in therapy after Love Island

Since then she has embarked on a course of therapy and is now looking for love again on Celebs Go Dating after learning to love herself more.

She revealed:  “I still do therapy. Not as often as I would like because I’m so busy. I’m doing it about once a month.

“She has given my CBT tools to use and ways to help process things. I love it. I understand why Americans use them all the time.”

Discussing how it has helped her when it comes to dating, Amy said: “Therapy has really helped me understand it’s not me who is the problem. It’s not my fault I haven’t had a proper boyfriend it’s  just that I haven’t found the one.

The star’s love story with Curtis was a big part of the 2019 series of Love Island

“I used to keep messaging guys who were really awful, my friends would tell me to block them and I would pretend I had and then still message them as soon as I was on my own.

“I would let boys treat me like s**t and still go back for more.”

The love coaches on Celebs Go Dating – Anna Williams and Paul Carrick Brunson – have also been a huge help.

“Anna and Paul picked up on my low self-esteem as soon as we started filming,” she added.  “I’d only been filming two days and they spotted straight away how I put myself down and have no self-esteem. I am a little nervous of delving too deeply into that during the series.”

Amy is currently looking for love on Celebs Go Dating

She will be touching on her relationship with Curtis on the show, which she now realises wasn’t love – despite feeling like that at the time.

Amy explained:  “In hindsight it was just over five weeks of my life. I have come out and rationalised it all and realised it wasn’t as big a deal as it felt at the time.

“The first few weeks I came out I was still really upset then something just clicked. When you are in there you are in a bubble and everything is heightened. You become obsessed but once I snapped out of it I bounced back really quickly.”

She added: “I thought it was true love with Curtis but that villa is a strange, strange place.

“I thought I had been in love before Love Island and then got into the villa and thought no that wasn’t love this is what love feels like but now I have realised that wasn’t love either. So I can’t wait to experience real love because it will be amazing.”