Love Island's Alex Miller defends producers after Mike Thalassitis dies

Love Island star Alex Miller defended producers of ITV2 after being targeted by the death of Mike Thalbaditis.

The 26-year-old was found hanged last Saturday in a park near his childhood home in North London. The ITV leaders were supplemented by those who thought they were not doing enough to help the reality stars with mental health issues show up.

Alex admitted during an appearance on Access All Areas with Lizzie Cundy and Stephen Leng that he was planning to commit suicide after a spiral of depression after the show ended.

In the same series, however, he said the producers of Love Island should not be held responsible for Mike's death.

Alex said, "They can not be proactive all the time and keep chasing after.

"There are so many competitors that it's impossible for them."

Earlier in the series, Lizzie Cundy had confessed that she knew Mike under the pseudonym Muggy Mike, although the reality TV star does not live up to his televised character in real life.

She said, "He called me Cougar, I called him Muggy!

"He liked that I called him Muggy.I know that there are a lot of other pretty angry competitors who said: 'Do not call it Muggy,' but we had a joke and I always called him, and that did not bother him. "

Lizzie also revealed that she believed that there was a bright future for Mike but that he had been affected by some stories written about him.

The 49-year-old said, "He had a lot of exciting things, I mean, there was a lot of writing about him, people had said a lot about him – stories that," he said. he says, were not true – and that will see him.

"I told him:" Read what people say about me! Try to take it off. "

The TV presenter then had tears in her eyes when she remembered that she had not answered the phone with Mike, who had called her about ten days before her death.

The emotions being strong, Lizzie said, "I feel really bad."

Stephen Leng replied, "You can tell, you seem a little upset now."

Although Alex, 28, exonerates the producers for their follow-up, it has already been announced that Love Island would be being revised so that entries into the villa benefit from support. enough to leave the show.

Recalling his own struggle after being dropped from the villa, he said the show producers had finally contacted him after attending a disturbing speech by Alex on Instagram.

He said: "I got a hang of it on Instagram, I went through a dark period and, thankfully, one of the producers followed me on Instagram." J & # 39; I saw the hangover contact me and put me in touch with a psychiatrist.

"Looking back, all I had to do was go ahead and go talk to them. "

Alex says that the therapy has helped and that he is trying to move on.

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