Following his eviction from Australian Survivor on Sunday night, Shaun Hampson has admitted his mental health took a blow as he struggled to adjust to normal life.
The former AFL explained to news.com.au that mentally, he still in survival mode after enduring weeks on end of extreme conditions.
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“The morning after I got voted out, I was out on my balcony and I was looking around the roof and stuff – I was looking for an idol. I had to stop myself: ‘You’ve lost your mind. You don’t need to do that anymore’,” he told the online publication.
“Or I’d be looking for fruit to eat from the coconut or papaya trees around the villa – the game does a number on you mentally.”
Shaun’s admission comes one day after his partner, Megan Gale admitted that their close friends and family had thought they’d split up, as she was forced to keep Shaun’s participation in the Ten Network show a secret.
“I had so many of his friends’ parents going ‘Where’s Shaun? Where’s Shaun, when’s he coming back? What’s he doing?’
“I think people thought we’d split up because I couldn’t answer and I couldn’t lie properly — we had to keep it super, super, secret,” the Aussie model confessed during an Instagram Q&A.
Earlier this week, Shaun also revealed that he had lost a staggering 11kgs from his muscular frame during his time on Australian Survivor.
‘It was about the skinniest I’d been since I was 18 or 19 years old,’ he revealed to The Courier Mail.