JoJo Siwa has spoken out after breaking up with her partner, Kath Ebbs, following her appearance on the British reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother.
Siwa, who uses all pronouns, appeared on the chat show This Morning today (28 April) to talk about her experience on the show, on which she made headlines after announcing that she had realized she was 'not a lesbian'.
On Celebrity Big Brother, Siwa had said: "I think I've always told myself I'm a lesbian. I think you...I think being here, I've realised I am not a lesbian, I’m queer. And I think that's really cool—I'm switching letters! I've dropped the L and I've gone to the Q, baby! That's what I love about sexuality."
In the wake of her admission, Siwa's partner, Ebbs, took to Instagram to announce that they and Siwa had split up.
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Now, Siwa has spoken out about how her feelings changed during her time on the show, saying: "When I went into the house... day one and day two were fine. But on day three, I was away from anyone I knew and outside opinions.
"I sat with myself with things I was okay with in my life, that I should have never been okay with. I wanted to hold that inside and didn't want to air that publicly. I was not happy."
Siwa went on to claim that she had been 'pretending things were great', but that she knew 'as soon as [she] got out' of the Big Brother house that she wanted to 'fix things in [her] life and make the changes'.
"It's 20 days but feels like four and a half years and as soon as you get out you want to make it right. I was pretending things were great."
In a video shared online, Ebbs claimed they had gone to a live Big Brother show to 'show up' for Siwa as her time on the reality show came to an end, but things ended up taking a turn.
They explained: "But before I could even get back to the hotel I… it’s actually crazy… I went to the afterparty with my now ex, and was dumped in the party.
"I was told there were confused feelings there and they had realised in the house I wasn’t the person they wanted to spend the foreseeable with."
In her new interview, Siwa was asked about the breakup at the Celebrity Big Brother wrap party and claimed it was 'not intentionally supposed to happen like that'.
"They straight up asked me if I was happy and I said 'no', then one thing lead to another," she said.
Siwa also spoke out about her newly formed relationship with Celebrity Big Brother co-star Chris Hughes, insisting their connection was 'platonic'.
Topics: JoJo Siwa, This Morning, Celebrity, Sex and Relationships
Emily Brown