Paige Thorne on Adam Collard "ghosting her" and getting over the break up
Love Island’s Paige Thorne has been centre stage a lot recently, after videos emerged of boyfriend Adam Collard with his arms around another woman on a night out. While he heavily denied anything happened, the pair later announced their split, confirming they had gone their separate ways on the NTAs red carpet.
Now, Paige has opened up to Cosmopolitan UK about more alleged videos, as well as her break up from Adam, and about how she’s moving past the split.
Oh, and there is one thing she wants to set the record straight about.
Back in August, Adam and Paige left the Love Island villa firmly cemented as a couple, later becoming ‘official’ in the outside world. “We did the long distance thing and we were making it work pretty well,” she tells Cosmopolitan UK. “We’d make the time and take turns going to see each other. There were no problems.”
But fast forward two months, and footage emerged of Adam with his arms around another woman in a McDonald’s, fuelling speculation that he had cheated. His representative denied the rumours in a statement released to The Sun: “Adam headed to McDonald’s after a night out with friends. His friends were alongside him when a group of girls asked for photos and Adam being his friendly self, was open to posing and chatting to the girls, alongside other fans who wanted to chat in the same video.
“Adam understands how this video looks but wants to state that he left the restaurant with his friends and a box of 60 nuggets (with nothing or no one else) with the intention of getting home safely. Adam and Paige are currently dating and Adam only has eyes for her."
Paige says the pair initially tried to keep things going, despite alleging she received further videos in her DMs. “I know everybody told me ‘what he was like’ and the rest of it, [but] you never believe it. He was telling me nothing happened, and his attitude was like ‘Get over it.’ I was really upset by it, but why would I believe everything everyone says when he was treating me a certain way [in private]?
"By this time I had already been sent another video in my DMs that hasn't gone public yet. He didn't know that I had it. This one was like a massive kick in the face."
Despite all this, Paige and Adam vowed to give things another go. “I thought, ‘We can overlook this. We can get through this. Nobody else will have to find out about the video. I still want to be with you.’”
Paige alleges Adam then headed to Bali, where, despite their relationship being in a good place for a few days, “it got to maybe the third day and he started being really shady on text. He wasn't texting me back. He would leave me on ‘read’ for the entire day. My own boyfriend literally ghosted me. So I said, ‘When you’ve got five minutes, I’d really appreciate a phone call.’ He was like, ‘We do need a phone call, but I’ve got a party to go to and I wanna be in the right frame of mind for it.’
“From then, I was just like, ‘We’re done. This is beyond a joke now.’ He replied, ‘I didn’t want it to go this way, but at least we both know where we stand.’ We didn’t even get into an argument. I deleted my [Instagram] pictures and didn’t hear from him at all. That was it. There was no, ‘I’m sorry’ or ‘Let’s talk about it.’ There was nothing at all. And then obviously the NTAs came up and we ended up being on the red carpet at the same time.” Paige alleges she was then sent another video of Adam with someone else. “Literally five minutes before walking down the red carpet, I was shown a video of him kissing a girl in Bali. I was crying in the car before walking down the red carpet.”
While Paige acknowledges a lot of people will say ‘I told you so’ about how things ended with Adam, “It was a real relationship for me. Nobody was seeing how he made me feel or what we were like when it was just the two of us, you know? I feel like everyone is literally mocking me at this point.” In terms of getting over the relationship, “I have my good days and bad days. I keep myself distracted, but if I’m having a slow day, it does feel like everything is on top of me and as if I’m trying to keep my head about water. My best break up advice is to absolutely surround yourself with friends and family.”
Oh, and one thing Paige wants to set straight? “It’s spreading that me and Jacques are back in contact, and we're going to be ‘reunited’ and all this kind of thing. We've literally had one conversation on the phone. It's just friends. Everyone can chill out with the speculation that ‘Paige and Jack, she's gonna go back to him’. It's not quite like that. We’re just friends.”
We have reached out to Adam Collard for comment.
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