MARRIED At First Sight’s Ella Morgan broke down in tears as she spoke about her heartbreaking split from Celebs Go Dating boyfriend Alex.
The 31-year-old reality star admitted to Olivia Attwood‘s So Wrong It’s Right podcast that Alex was her first proper boyfriend and that she’d told him she loved him.
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She said: “I don’t want to badmouth him too much.
“I had some messages from other girls saying my boyfriend at the time had been messaging them, gave him the benefit of the doubt.”
Ella began to get emotional as she remembered the painful separation and host Olivia did her best to comfort her.
“I am over it,” said Ella. “The breakup was really hard because I was falling in love with him. I’m sad because I don’t think I was treated very nicely.
“I’ve got this built up anger towards him.”
Ella said she was having to learn a lot about relationships after spending her early adult years transitioning – she underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2015.
Despite the heartache, she said she’s in a much better place now and is glad she is out of the relationship.
She even revealed that close pal Stephen Webb, who starred alongside her on Celebs Go Dating, told her and Alex that he could only see them lasting six more weeks when they were all in Ibiza last year.
Ella also spoke about her MAFS ex JJ Slater, who is now in a relationship with Katie Price.
Revealing she had no bad blood with the couple, Ella called Katie an “icon” and said she doesn’t have a bad word to say about her.
Ella and Alex’s romance played out on screen last summer.
Their bond only grew when Ella was forced to take time off from the show after falling ill, and Alex sent her flowers while she recovered.
After the show, the pair became official and, in October, Ella told The Sun at the Pride of Britain Awards she was “happy and content” with Alex and they’d both said they loved each other.
She told us: “He’s not like any of the other people I’ve been with. I feel like I want to pinch myself.
“I went on two dating shows, first one didn’t go well.
“I actually didn’t think anything would happen, this sounds so cringe, you know when you know.”
But Ella called it quits just before Christmas after accusing Alex of being unfaithful and messaging other younger women.
A source told The Sun at the time: “Ella is absolutely heartbroken and disappointed but the trust is gone now for her.
“On the outside they appeared so happy and loved up but there was cracks growing on the inside.
“Fans absolutely adored them and that initially spurred them on to try and make things work and they even planned to move into Alex’s house at some point.
“She’s going into the New Year single with a positive mind frame but it has come at the worst time with Christmas and her birthday just days away.”
