JoJo Siwa’s ex Kath Ebbs has spoken more about her split from the Celebrity Big Brother star - and said they were dealing with grief while JoJo was in the house.
Speaking on their podcast Conversations with Kath, the content creator, 27, opened up more about the infamous split, saying they were worried before Siwa entered the CBB house about how they’d cope with the anniversary of losing their best friend.
"Sadly lost my ex-boyfriend but one of my best friends and the anniversary period of that was going to be when she was in the house," Ebbs said.
"So a lot of our conversations were centered around how she didn't want me to feel abandoned in that and I didn't feel like she was.”
During her time on the ITV show, Siwa, 21, raised eyebrows due to her increasingly close friendship with ex Love Island star Chris Hughes, 32, despite her having a partner. Ebbs then revealed that Siwa had dumped them at the CBB wrap party.
Former child star Siwa - who had been in a relationship with non-binary Australian content creator Ebbs since the start of the year - also came to the conclusion that she was queer and not a lesbian while in the CBB house.
Speaking more on the podcast, Ebbs continued: “There were definitely time where I felt triggered and I acted out in certain ways that I now look back on I'm like, 'Ah I was anxious about her leaving,' because I have pretty hectic abandonment stuff.
“Our conversations were more around how I was going to be held in my grief while I can't speak to my partner who is a massive support system in that."
On the podcast, Ebbs also said they broke down when they saw a clip of Siwa “crawling into bed” with Hughes.
"I had the world's biggest meltdown. I called one of my best mates looking for validation, I was like, 'I'm having a hard time, am I just being crazy?' One thing about me is I'm really progressive, I have intimate friendships. I peck friends. I'm really f**king progressive in the way that I view friendship and I didn't know why this was triggering me."
They added that they cried bathroom floor, as they saw the clip “the day before the anniversary of my friend's death so I felt really fragile and really alone”.
