I’m A Celebrity’s Lady Colin Campbell: ‘My Mum Tried To Burn My Face With A Cigarette’

She has only been in the Aussie outback for a few days, but Lady Colin Campbell is already winning over the I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here viewers.

The socialite and TV personality is much-loved for her eccentric personality, but has previously opened up about a very dark period in her life that “shattered” her relationship with her mother.

Born in Jamaica, Lady C was raised as a boy due to a genital malformation and has claimed in the past that her mother was an alcoholic who suffered from a narcissistic personality disorder.

The reality star also revealed that when she finally had corrective surgery at the age of 21 and got her new, female ID, her mother became jealous of her looks and tried to burn her face with cigarettes.

Lady C shared: “That shattered my relationship with her. Narcissists are very envious of other people, but I didn’t know she was a narcissist then.

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“I just thought she was being horrid to me. Now I know what motivated her.”

Still, when the 66-year-old was encouraged by a friend to write a book about living with “a monster” after her mum’s death she initially refused, adding: “I think she thought I had the tools, the spiritual tools, to do it justice.

“I was flattered, but then I recoiled. I said, it’s my mother! But she said, ‘No, your mother’s dead. It’s no dishonour to her now’.

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Her sister, Libby, also wanted Lady C to write the book, with the star continuing: “You can’t go around telling people what a monster your mother was on a day to day basis. It’s unseemly. So I think she wants the recognition, the validation, of what she suffered at the hands of this monster.”

In fact, at one stage Lady C was left so enraged by her mother’s behaviour that she even planned to get her committed to a mental asylum, telling The Scotsman: “I stayed awake three days and nights figuring it out… I was proud of myself for coming up with it, though I was a little bit ashamed it took me three days.

“There was mummy churning out these blasted schemes, and it took me three days.”

Lady C decided not to carry out her plan, but she did eventually agree to write a book about her mother in 2009, the well-received book was entitled: ‘Daughter of Narcissus: A Family’s Struggle to Survive Their Mother’s Narcissistic Personality Disorder’.