Leaving paradise behind. After Tigerlily Cooley’s temporary stint on Love Island USA, she has opened up about her mysterious departure.
“A whole lot of individuals have been asking why [I] disappeared on Love Island and I really feel it’s solely honest to the general public to handle my expertise throughout Casa Amor, to the extent I’m allowed to reveal,” the Peacock character, 24, tweeted on Friday, August 26, alongside a prolonged assertion.
Tigerlily initially joined season 4 earlier this month as a part of the truth TV sequence’ “Casa Amor” twist, the place the unique male Islanders go away the villa — and their companions —for a second abode. The aim of Casa is for the contestants to check the power of their budding romances when tempted by newcomers.
Gabby Kiszka, Tigerlily Cooley, and Phoebe Siegel on ‘Love Island.’ Casey Durkin/Peacock
“Coming onto the present, I used to be genuinely focused on attending to know one of many Islanders,” the mannequin famous in her Friday assertion with out revealing who had caught her eye. “Nevertheless, their conduct off-screen crossed my boundaries and made me extraordinarily uncomfortable.”
She continued: “After refusing sexual advances, I used to be handled with full disrespect by this Islander. I used to be humiliated in group settings and the false rumors unfold by this Islander made me really feel slut shamed. It grew to become so insufferable [that] I thought-about leaving, however in the end felt it was unfair that this Islander could be allowed to remain whereas I used to be bullied off the present.”
Whereas Tigerlily by no means addressed her alleged bully by identify, Jesse Bray, Chazz Bryant, Isaiah Campbell, Timmy Pandolfi and Jared Hassim traded the unique villa for a “mini break” in Casa. Following Tigerlily’s preliminary entrance and subsequent alleged encounter, she then began receiving much less display screen time.
“Lots of you have got noticed, nevertheless, I used to be mainly by no means proven once more on TV after that aside from me sleeping alongside within the Hideaway [private suite], segregated from the opposite Islanders, although I did type a robust reference to one other Islander who wished to share a mattress with me,” she alleged.
Tigerlily Cooley Courtesy of Tigerlily Cooley/Instagram
The truth TV star additional revealed that she has since not been invited to the end-of-season reunion and “different alternatives to talk [out to the media]” that different dumped Islanders obtained.
“All of this deeply saddens me,” she wrote in her Twitter assertion. “When Love Island reached out to me about being on the present, I used to be excited since I’ve at all times been a passionate advocate for elevated range within the media. Asian American are one of many least-represented demographics within the leisure trade and the I used to be excited by the chance to be a constructive determine locally.”
The truth TV program — hosted by Sarah Hyland with narration by Iain Stirling — has but to publicly handle Tigerlily’s allegations, and Us Weekly has reached out to NBC for remark.
The aspiring artist, for her half, believes that she has “held myself with dignity and style” throughout her temporary tenure within the villa regardless of “nearly no display screen time, no correct onscreen goodbye” and being excluded from post-show alternatives.
Love Island USA airs on Peacock Tuesdays by means of Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
