Former Love Island star Patsy Field has told fans that she is now ‘scared’ to walk around her local area in London after fearing that she was being followed by a man recently
A former Love Island star has said that she is “scared” to walk around her local community after an experience just days ago whilst out at night on her own. She has expressed concern that she was being followed by someone.
Patsy Field, 30 – who appeared on the ITV2 show last year – said in a video on TikTok recently that she had been walking alone in Bromley one evening when a man seemingly started to follow her. She said that after both crossing the road a few times, she ended up screaming and running away.
The reality TV star shared her concern in a four-minute video that she uploaded to the platform three days ago. In the video, Patsy asked her followers if she was “overthinking it” or was justified to have felt “scared” for her life.
She asked: “Do you think I’m overreacting or not? Basically something happened to me yesterday that has just never happened to me before and it freaked me out and now I’m scared to like walk around in my local area.”
Patsy said that she had been out for a meal in London with her family before deciding to “walk it all off” after getting home. She suggested it was around 8pm and said she’s “never had any issues” in the area that she’s from in Bromley.
She told fans that she had been wearing a gym outfit, which she said “maybe is a bit revealing”. Patsy added in the video message on her account: “I’ve never had any issues before [though]. Always felt like quite safe where I’m from.”
The former islander said she had headphones on which are “quite noise cancelling”. She added: “Walking for about 10 minutes up the road and I just get the urge to just turn around. […] There’s a man walking like one or two steps behind me.”
She said that he “startled” her and she initially felt “panic,” but Patsy told fans that she encouraged herself not to overthink the situation. She added: “He was very close and he was like making eye contact with me when I turned around.”
Patsy said that she then decided to cross the road. She said that, after taking a couple of steps on the other side of the road, she decided to look back. “Turn around, he’s crossed the road. He’s on the other side of the road as well,” she said.
She questioned if it was a “weird coincidence” and said that she had noticed some cars lined-up on that side of the road, suggesting that she wondered if he was going to one of them. She said that she decided to cross the road again though.
Patsy said that she thought at the time: “This is gonna be really awkward but now I’m gonna cross the road back over again just to get away from him for sure and make sure I know that he’s definitely not following me.”
She continued: “Cross the road, back over to the original side that I was on, I look over across the road and he’s crossing back to the original side that we were both on.” She added: “Now we’re both back on the other side of the road so I just thought ‘oh my God, what do I do?'”
The content creator appeared to say that she then “stopped dead in [her] tracks”. Patsy said that she decided to stand still and suggested to viewers: “If he’s got somewhere to be, he’s gonna carry on walking isn’t he?”
She then appeared to tell fans that he carried on walking towards a zebra crossing at the end of the road. She said that he crossed the zebra crossing, adding: “Just as he’s about to go out of sight, like away, he stops, he turns back around and he just starts walking back towards me.”
“So he’s on the other side of the road but he’s walking towards me and looking at me so I’m still stood where I stopped,” she said. Patsy added: “As he gets closer to me, he just starts crossing the road back towards me and then I thought ‘run’. I literally started screaming.”
Patsy said that she then called her mother and told her that someone was “following” her. She added: “So I run as fast as I can out of the way and he doesn’t follow me, as far as I’m aware.” She appeared to say: “I didn’t look back I just kept f***ing running.”
She said that her mum came and got her. Patsy said that what happened felt like “too much of a coincidence, adding: “Now I’m scared to walk in my own area which is a shame cause I’ve never had an issue before.” Warning others, she said shortly before ending the video message: “Stay safe girls.”
Patsy’s post has more than 40,000 likes on the platform. Fans shared supportive messages in the comments section, with the reality TV star receiving well wishes and advice from some of her followers on TikTok after posting the video.
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