JoJo Siwa’s ex Kath Ebbs has made a brave admission about the toll the last few weeks have taken on her mental health.
Australian actress Kath, 27, said that they were dumped by JoJo, 21, at the Celebrity Big Brother afterparty when they flew to the UK to celebrate JoJo making it to the final of the ITV show last week.
JoJo developed an incredibly close bond with fellow housemate and former Love Island star Chris Hughes, 32 during her three weeks in the house. The pair’s close bond sparked plenty of speculation, and during a recent appearance on This Morning, Chris offered clarity. “It’s a soulmate friendship,” he explained. “It’s not your typical friendship, but it’s still a friendship. We’re friends.”
JoJo echoed the sentiment, saying, “He’s a gorgeous boy, look, he’s a great guy… it is platonic, we have a lot of fun together.” She added thoughtfully, “Life is life and I don’t know any future of anything but I’m really grateful for the dynamic that we have and the bond that we have. Whatever life does, life will do.”
JoJo, who had been dating Kath for seven months before entering the Celebrity Big Brother house, allegedly called off their relationship at the the TV show’s afterparty, leaving her Aussie partner blindsided and heartbroken.
Kath – who is non-binary – has stayed relatively shtum on their heartbreak, but made a subtle acknowledgement in a new Instagram post.
They shared a post from The Daily Aus about how Australian politician and leader of the Coalition party Peter Dutton has lost his constituent seat in Dickson, a post he had held since 2001. In May 2021, Dutton – then serving as Australia ’s Minister for Defence – stopped the department and serving military from marking the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia, describing it as a “woke agenda”.
They wrote above it, “After some of the hardest mental health weeks I’ve ever endured… this is a fkn win!!!,” in an apparent reference to their recent break-up.
Shortly after their shock split, Kath told the Mirror: “It’s really unfortunate that my relationship with this person is being reduced to untrue allegations about what happened at a party. The public has only heard one side of the story. Attacks on my character are not something I take lightly, especially from someone I cared for deeply and shared a committed relationship with.”
After JoJo landed back to her hometown of LA, she appeared to make a cutting dig at Kath. Just days earlier, Kath went public with the news that JoJo ended their relationship at the CBB wrap party. Posting on Instagram, the Australian content creator described the moment as a “complete shock,” saying they felt “numbed out and humiliated” by the split.
While back in the US, JoJo hinted that her time in the house prompted deep self-reflection, and when asked if she was happy to be home, she replied: “Can I be honest? No. I want to go back, I want to go back.”
Pressed about what she learned during her time on the show, she subtly alluded to her personal life, saying: “Probably [that I] learned more about myself… I think that I had a lot of things in my life I wasn’t happy about. And being there forced me to change that, and that’s good. I needed that.”
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