O’Meara ‘contemplated suicide’ after Big Brother

CELEBRITY Big Brother loser Jo O’Meara yesterday said the “cruel” reality show should be axed by Channel 4.

The former S-Club 7 singer has become a public hate figure after leaving the house, where she was accused of racist bullying of eventual winner Shilpa Shetty.

Speaking to Sky News, O’Meara broke down in tears as she once again denied being a racist. She said her reception on leaving the house had been so bad she had even contemplated suicide, but said she was “too wimpish” to go through with it and thoughts of her family stopped her.

Last week she issued a statement pleading for the public’s understanding and claiming her life had been “totally shattered” by the Channel 4 show.

She told Sky News: “I feel if this is what a TV show does to people then it shouldn’t be a TV show.

“I have got to pick the pieces up or I will end up going mad — more mad than I am. I don’t think you can get much lower.

“They say you have to hit rock bottom before you can build yourself up. I just hope I’m at the bottom now.”

She described the week since the show ended as “horrendous” and was seeing a behavioural psychologist.

She said: “I just think the whole thing has been so unfair and so cruel and that I’ve not been portrayed as the person I really am.”

O’Meara described herself as a “massive” Big Brother fan but said no one has any idea what it will be like until they live it.

Asked about the allegations of bullying, she said: “I’m not a racist person, I never, ever have been. None of it makes sense; don’t know how this has all happened.”