Big Brother’s Tilly Whitfield reveals it took her ‘months’ to get over her eviction

EXCLUSIVE: ‘I just sat in my suitcase and cried’: Big Brother’s Tilly Whitfield reveals it took her ‘months’ to get over her ‘traumatic’ eviction


Big Brother star Tilly Whitfield has revealed it took her ‘months’ to get over her ‘traumatic’ exit from the show.

The 21-year-old went on the Channel Seven reality show with the motto ‘act dumb, play smart’ – breaking a record with her number of challenge wins.

But despite her best efforts, Tilly was ultimately sent home during Wednesday night’s episode during a game of Russian Roulette against housemate Ari Kimber.

‘I just sat in my suitcase and cried’: Big Brother’s Tilly Whitfield, 21, (pictured) has revealed it has taken her ‘months’ to get over her eviction

‘I don’t know if you could see my face, I just went numb. I couldn’t even cry,’ she told Daily Mail Australia of her elimination.

‘I just knew I was holding it,’ she said of the diamond box, which had her eliminated rather than return to the Big Brother house.

Tilly explained while others may have celebrated their homecoming with family, she was ‘heartbroken’.

Sad: 'I don't know if you could see my face, I just went numb. I couldn't cry,' she told Daily Mail Australia of her elimination on Wednesday night

Sad: ‘I don’t know if you could see my face, I just went numb. I couldn’t cry,’ she told Daily Mail Australia of her elimination on Wednesday night 

Unlucky! 'I just knew I was holding it,' she said of the diamond box which would have her evicted rather than return to the Big Brother house

Unlucky! ‘I just knew I was holding it,’ she said of the diamond box which would have her evicted rather than return to the Big Brother house

‘It wasn’t some happy thing,’ she said, before revealing that she was the only evicted contestant to be driven directly home, instead of staying at a hotel overnight.

‘They took me straight home,’ she revealed. ‘It was just traumatic, it took me months to get over it and I’m still sad about it.’

Tilly said that after she was dropped off at home by producers, within minutes she decided to call fellow evictee Mary Kalifatidis for support.

Who knew they were friends? Tilly said that after she was dropped off at home by producers, within minutes she decided to call fellow evictee Mary Kalifatidis [left] for support

Who knew they were friends? Tilly said that after she was dropped off at home by producers, within minutes she decided to call fellow evictee Mary Kalifatidis [left] for support 

‘The first thing I did was call up Mary. I needed to call her because I was obviously very upset,’ she recalled. 

‘I literally just sat in my suitcase and cried, I was so sad… I couldn’t do anything. I felt that I had just went numb.’

Big Brother continues on Monday at 7.30pm on Seven 

So sad! Tilly revealed that she was so 'heartbroken' by her eviction that it took her months to get over it. 'I literally just sat in my suitcase and cried, I was so sad,' she said

So sad! Tilly revealed that she was so ‘heartbroken’ by her eviction that it took her months to get over it. ‘I literally just sat in my suitcase and cried, I was so sad,’ she said