MKR 'villain': The show has left me bullied and broke.

This reality TV “bad girl” says she’s been left so devastated by the experience that she was hospitalised.  

My Kitchen Rules ‘mean girl’ Kelly Ramsay has been rushed to hospital with suspected bleeding on the brain after the stress and pressure got to be too much for her following the finale.

And Kelly is saying she is broke and virtually unemployable because the show deliberately edited her to make Australia hate her. She says she is now bullied whenever she goes out in public and has been forced to move back in with her parents.

“Some days you don’t cope with fame. I’m finding it harder now that we’ve lost,” she told news.com.au.

Kelly made it into the Grand Final of the popular cooking show with best friend Chloe James. They lost out to Adelaide mums Bree and Jess, but only found out that they had not won at the same time as the rest of Australia, last Tuesday night.

“I thought all this negativity would follow with this great ending, that we were going to win and follow our dreams. Now we’ve lost it’s weighing a lot harder on us. We have no money, I have people trolling my work to fire me, I was in hospital on Sunday with exhaustion. It cuts your whole soul, it cuts your being.”

Her family became concerned on Sunday when Kelly woke up with a severe migraine at 1.30am. She was also suffering from blurred vision. They called an ambulance who rushed her to Swan District Hospital in Perth. After running tests doctors concluded it was stress and exhaustion causing her symptoms and kept her overnight.

“I was out and about, I’d had a few drinks but I went home and woke up with a migraine,” she told news.com.au. “I think I was just physically and mentally exhausted. They admitted me, they wanted to make sure I didn’t have bleeding on the brain due to loss of vision, an extreme migraine and vomiting. They said it was probably exhaustion and stress.”

Chloe and Kelly have maintained that they were never as mean as the show portrayed, blaming editing for making them appear meaner than they really are. Kelly says the after-effects of the show means their reputation is ruined and they are finding it hard to work and live normal lives.

Kelly says she was taken out of context, with Channel 7 choosing only select moments to show and not airing any footage of she and Chloe crying when contestants left. "I think they took it too far this year with the whole villain thing. All the show is real essentially, it’s a lot of editing and creative characters. Things are often taken out of context,” she said.

“You never saw us cry when anybody left, you never heard anything positive come out of our mouths. We said a lot of positive things and we cried on several occasions when people left the show. By taking that out it made us look like super-negative people”.

“I went out for drinks and someone behind me said, ‘There’s that c*** from that show. Oh my God, look at that face.’ It’s constant, I had it on the bus yesterday.”

Now Kelly is relying on her family to support her financially because she is only earning an apprentice's wage in her job as a trainee in Perth restaurant The Trustee. She says her employer is being trolled by people demanding she be fired. “It’s very hard because this week a number of people have come into my work and said I should be fired for my behaviour on MKR. We still get abusive emails.”

Kelly says Chloe is struggling financially as well. 3.7 million viewers watched the finale of the show on April 29 however only winners Bree and Jess walked away with any money, pocketing $250,000.

“We’re devastated by the whole thing, both of us have days that are worse than others. More than anything we’re worried about our future. We had a dream and that’s taken away. Having the reputation of these monster villains is hard. We’re going to be carrying that shadow with us, all created for entertainment.”

Do you feel sorry for Kelly? Should reality shows take responsibility for what happens to their contestants when the cameras stop rolling?

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