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Jesy Nelson wins NTA and holds back tears in emotional acceptance speech for Odd One Out documentary

It was one of the saddest and most talked about shows of last year and Jesy Nelson held back the tears as her documentary won a National Television Award on Tuesday night.

The soul-bearing programme, which was streamed hundreds of thousands of times on on BBC iPlayer, saw Little Mix star Jesy open up her body insecurities and the abuse she received on social media before and long after the girl group's win on The X Factor in 2011, which saw Jesy triumph alongside bandmates Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards, both from South Shields.

Things got so bad that Jesy even made an attempt to take her own life after being trolled following Little Mix's return to The X Factor in 2013.

Jesy was the subject of absolutely savage online comments, including one from notoriously harsh Katie Hopkins who tweeted "Packet Mix have still got a chubber in their ranks. Less Little Mix. More Pick n Mix."

The young singer, who admitted she starved herself for a week before the girls' comeback performance, revealed that such comments about her weight and appearance left her severely depressed.

And she got a tremendous reaction from everyone at the O2 Arena when Odd One Out was announced as the winner in the Best Factual category.

You can watch her emotional speech in the video above taken from ITV, where she paid tribute to her mum and boyfriend and former Love Islander Chris Hughes.

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