‘Big Brother’ Star Thought ‘I Was Going to Die’ from Fake Weight-Loss Drug

Big Brother alum Aisleyne Horgan Wallace says she thought she “was going to die” after taking counterfeit weight-loss injectables she bought online — and is sharing her experience to warn others, saying “don’t copy me.” 

The reality star, 46, appeared on the Aug. 21 episode of Good Morning Britain, explaining how she bought the unbranded injectables via a WhatsApp group after struggling with her weight, explaining, “I was in quite a bad place. I’d just lost two people very close to me in, like, within the space of three months, so I was eating my feelings.”

“I gained loads and loads of weight and I wasn’t really thinking straight,” she explained, adding she “just followed my friend” who was in a WhatsApp group and bought the medicine. “I just thought, ‘Okay, I’ll just go for it.’ “

When she took the second dose, the reaction was “so bad,” she said, per the Independent: “I was in my bed for three days, and I was literally in and out of consciousness.,”

Horgan Wallace continued: “There’s like, bags of vomit — sorry to be so graphic — I was just in such a bad place.”

“My vision was gone in one eye,” she said. “I was petrified.”

Horgan Wallace brought a syringe filled with a clear fluid to the morning show, explaining that it was shipped in a box with ice packs but had “no medical paperwork, nothing.” “I look at that now and I think, ‘What was I thinking?’ 

She added she kept it in the hopes she would connect with someone who could test the contents of the syringe and find out what exactly was in it.

Fake versions of the in-demand semaglutide drugs — which work in the brain to impact satiety — have flooded the market. People have been hospitalized after accidentally overdosing on the medication or, like Horgan Wallace, getting sick from taking the injectables.

Horgan Wallace explained that at first, she hadn’t wanted to share her experience. “I was so mortified. I was really embarrassed that I’d done something so stupid,” she said. But, as Horgan Wallace explained, she wanted to warn others about the dangers of buying weight-loss drugs online.

“It was a really foolish thing to do, and I want people to know never to do that,” she said. “Don’t copy me, because I thought I was going to die.”

Horgan Wallace emphasized her point in a comment on the Good Morning Britain‘s Instagram post, writing, “So glad GMB covered this ever growing serious issue, glad to have been able to share my truth and really hope people take heed xx.”

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