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Former Big Brother star Rebekah Shelton has hit back at trolls who claim that she faked her recent death hoax.
Back in January, Rebekah's Twitter account 'announced' that she had passed away.
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Thankfully, she was alive and well. It turned out to be a death hoax, yet some cynical people on social media suggested that the hoax was a deliberate attempt to get her name in the headlines.
Appearing on The Jeremy Kyle Show, Rebekah set the record straight.
"I woke up to many messages on my phone of people saying that I was an angel and saying rest in peace," she recalled. "For a second, I thought, 'Am I dead?' It may be funny now, but it's not good emotionally. It's very damaging emotionally."
Jeremy Kyle said: "You were accused by people of organising this yourself as a publicity stunt because of an insatiable quest for fame. How difficult was that?"
Rebekah replied: "Who are the people who said that I was faking the news about my death? You know who? A couple of losers.
"But do you know where they are now? I don't, either."
At the time, Rebekah claimed that the person behind the sick prank was a love rival.
Earlier on The Jeremy Kyle Show, the 2009 Big Brother contestant spoke about the period in her life leading up to her transition.
"Once you find yourself in a male body fancying someone of the same gender, the first thing you think is, 'I'm gay', and once you start living in the gay world, you realise maybe you don't see yourself in that world," Rebekah explained.
"When I was a child, we didn't have programmes to talk about this, so I think it's really important to talk. Because I didn't know what I was."
The Jeremy Kyle Show airs on ITV.
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