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Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace has opened up on her horror experience taking a fake fat jab in desperation to lose weight, which nearly killed her.
The TV personality and model took to Good Morning Britain on Friday to open up about the experience of buying fake Ozempic off an illegal seller on Facebook - and to beg viewers considering doing so 'not to play Russian roulette with their lives'.
Aisleyne, 46, joined Rob Rinder and Kate Garraway on the ITV series to be quizzed on the reasons why she turned to the botched fat jabs in the first place.
She explained: 'My friend had got it and it had worked for her, and it didn't feel illegal, it felt like, "well my friends doing it", so it doesn't feel wrong.'
The Big Brother star added that if she had 'gone to the GP', she would not have qualified for the drug as she was 'not morbidly obese', driving her to other routes to source the injections.
She contacted a Facebook supplier to buy the botched jabs, but it did not have the same effect for her as it had on her friend who had revealed it 'worked for her'.
Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace opened up on her horror experience taking a fake fat jab in desperation to lose weight
The TV personality and model took to Good Morning Britain on Friday to open up about the experience of buying fake Ozempic off an illegal seller on Facebook
Aisleyne was soon suffering horrendous side effects from the jab, which when tested, had more than double the starting dose for a new user.
'It was horrific,' she told hosts Rob, 47, and Kate, 58. 'I honestly thought, "This is it, this is my fate, I'm going to go", and it was really, really scary.'
Aisleyne explained that the injections were delivered to her home without the correct packaging on them, which carries risks of a 'dirty needle' and 'bacteria'.
Reflecting on her decision, she begged viewers tuning in not to turn to buying the drug on social media, and instead take the correct route by seeing a GP.
She said: 'I just want people to know not to do it. Don't play Russian Roulette with your life.'
Aisleyne previously opened up on the ordeal on GMB earlier this year, admitting she was 'in such a bad place' and 'mortified' by her choices.
'I was in my bed for three days. I was in and out of consciousness. There were bags of vomit,' she explained of the side effects.
'I was in such a bad place, my vision was blurry. It was really, really scary.
Aisleyne previously appeared on Good Morning Britain in August to talk about the ordeal, which left her 'mortified' to go out in public
The Big Brother star added that if she had 'gone to the GP', she would not have qualified for the drug as she was 'not morbidly obese'
'I didn’t go public 'till months and months later because I was so mortified. I was really embarrassed that I did something so stupid.'
Aisleyne warned: 'It was a really foolish thing to do, and I want people to know to never do that, and don’t copy me. I thought I was going to die.'
The once-a-week jab, which contains the drug semaglutide, is offered on the NHS to help type 2 diabetes patients control their blood sugar levels.
Also known by the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy, it triggers weight loss, earning it praise as a 'miracle' slimming injection.
The drugs mimic GLP-1, a hormone made naturally in the body that helps slow the passage of food through the stomach — which makes people feel less hungry.
In June the World Health Organization (WHO) announced three counterfeit batches falsely claiming to be manufactured by Ozempic-makers Novo Nordisk had entered the market.
The UN agency detected the fake injectable pens, which could prove 'life threatening', in Brazil and the UK last October, and the US in December.
Aisleyne told Closer Magazine she was in a 'dark place' before inadvertently using a counterfeit version of the drug - initially developed as a treatment for diabetes - and struggling with awful side effects.
The TV personality told the magazine: 'I won't lie, and I'm not proud, but I bought Ozempic injections from the black market...
'I must have had a dodgy batch because my body reacted so badly.
'For three days, I thought I was going to die. I was in my bed, waking up vomiting, suffering with diarrhoea and falling asleep again. At one point, I had three bags of vomit by my bedside.
'Frighteningly, I started losing my vision, my eyes were going blurry, and I couldn't even see my phone. I had no idea what was going to happen to me.'
Despite being in a poor state of health, she felt 'too embarrassed' to seek urgent medical attention.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1 and is available to stream on ITVX.
