Love Island star reveals her desperate bid to escape ex

A reality TV star has said she was forced to move home four times to escape her ex-partner’s relentless harassment as she told of how he would jump balconies” to track her down.

- MAYA OPPENHEIM

Malin Andersson, who was on Love Island, told The Independent her ex-partner Tom Kemp beat her “black and blue” while pregnant and she believes this contributed to her daughter Consy’s death at just over four weeks old.

Kemp was sentenced to just over nine months in prison in September 2020 for assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Ms Andersson’s story comes as The Independent continues its Brick by Brick campaign in partnership with the leading charity Refuge to raise £600,000 to build two safe homes for survivors of domestic abuse. More than £520,000 in donations has poured in so far.

The 32-year-old, who works as a motivational speaker and is now mother to two-year-old Xaya, hailed the campaign as “amazing” as she explained she had been fortunate enough to be able to afford to move to escape her ex-partner – but some women aren’t in a financial position to do so.

Ms Andersson said a refuge for domestic abuse victims would have been ideal for her but as she was not a mother at the time, she did not look into it after wrongly assuming they were only for women with children. “It would have been perfect because I would have been incognito,” she added.