Truth behind Tulisa’s torment: Huge bust-up and screaming row that led to Jungle star’s mysterious absence and deleted Instagram posts, revealed by KATIE HIND

Dressed in a pink cardigan top with her hair scraped back into a bun, Tulisa Contostavlos looked distraught as she told her fans about her torment since leaving the I’m A Celeb jungle.

In an Instagram video, recorded in her £1,000-a-night hotel room at the JW Marriott on Australia’s Gold Coast, the usually glamorous singer looked a shadow of her former self as she described the aftermath of her shock exit from the reality show on Monday evening.

Since then, I’m told, she has been distraught – so much so that she stopped appearing on the spin-off show Unpacked on Tuesday night, along with all the other evictees. She was also not seen at the resort, prompting speculation that she had hopped on a plane back to Britain.

Tulisa also addressed the reasons behind her deletion of the social media posts posted online during her time in the jungle.

“I’m going to archive all my jungle-related stuff and when the time is right and I’ve had some time to process it, I’m going to make my own stuff with all my best stuff that I really like,” said them.

‘Remember, I haven’t done my Instagram – the way everything is posted and all the random stuff is not the way I would do my Insta.’

While her comments may explain why she wanted to delete the messages, the Mail can reveal that what Tulisa kept secret from her 736,000 followers was a huge row she had with her best friend, singer Michelle McKenna, who was jailed. managed her Instagram account while on I’m A Celeb.

Sources close to the two women – who have been friends since they were teenagers – say they shouted at each other after Tulisa made it clear she was unhappy with the “type of content” Michelle and her boyfriend Daniel Johnson were sharing.

The post that particularly irked Tulisa, 36, was a video of Michelle and Daniel joking that dinner was on the singer as she left the jungle, I’m told. A friend said she thought it was ‘inappropriate’.

“They were only in Australia because of Tulisa,” the source explains. ‘It felt like they were enjoying the situation and taking liberties with her kindness.

‘Michelle and Daniel were there, on a trip funded by ITV and only because of Tulisa. They were there because of her and she trusted them with her social media.

‘When she came out of the jungle and saw what had been done there, she was upset and there was a huge argument. You can’t help but think that it must have really irritated her to see her friends living like this while she was messing around in the jungle.

“They were in a five-star hotel and most of the expenses had been paid, so it all feels a bit bad for Tulisa,” she added. “She’s so upset. She was distraught when she saw what was posted and wanted to get rid of it as quickly as possible.’

Just hours earlier, Michelle had met Tulisa as she came off the famous I’m A Celeb bridge as she became the third campmate to be evicted. They traveled back to the Marriott together, but when Tulisa stepped out of the darkened passenger car, she walked into the hotel alone with a face like thunder.

Once inside, she was seen jumping into Daniel’s arms and he swung her around. The plan was for the trio to spend the next five days together on the Gold Coast until the final on Sunday to milk Tulisa’s time in the jungle. They would then fly home next week.

But rumors soon spread around the hotel – where Coleen Rooney’s parents and two youngest sons are staying, as well as evicted Jane Moore, Dean McCullough and Melvin Odoom – that Tulisa was already on her way home.

ITV declined to comment on her whereabouts but insisted there were no issues between the broadcaster and Tulisa. She had, sources claim, ‘committed an act of disappearance’.

“Tulisa is literally missing,” says an insider. ‘The celebrities mingled, laughed and made the most of their time in Oz, but she was away. Word is she has gone home and wants nothing more to do with the show.”

Tulisa and Michelle – an urban dance artist – have been best friends since the N-Dubz singer moved to Manchester two years ago for a ‘better quality of life’.

The star bought a new-build villa in Congleton, Cheshire, to be closer to her best friends. They helped her furnish her home, which features a games and cinema room, an office, a home gym and a jacuzzi in the garden.

Michelle, who is also a former Noughties pop star with the band Platnum, flew out to support Tulisa ten days ago, while Daniel arrived just after his girlfriend.

While Down Under, Michelle Tulisa’s fans left no doubt about how close they were when she appeared on ITV’s Lorraine show. She talked about Tulisa’s appearance in the jungle and also shared secrets about her Bell’s palsy – a facial condition that had devastated the star’s life.

Michelle said: ‘She suffered a lot. She has had Bell’s palsy and she has also had to undergo surgery to have cysts removed. Her whole face dropped.”

When asked what she would say to the audience, she added: “Be nice, keep your mouth shut.”

The two women were so close that before continuing on I’m A Celeb, Tulisa told the Mail: ‘I have my best friend, Michelle, and her partner, Daniel, who is like a brother to me, and maybe a few others. people. They get a wonderful holiday and I have to suffer and end up in crazy things.’

Those who know them say they are ‘immensely close’ and Tulisa even spent Christmas with them last year, with everyone dressed up in matching pajamas with Michelle’s son.

For Tulisa, the fallout will be a sad end to her I’m A Celeb stint, which was designed to be her big comeback to the spotlight, eleven years after her career was ruined when she fell victim to an elaborate sting by the now the disgraced ‘fake sheikh’ Mazher Mahmood – a tabloid journalist who specialized in gaining the trust of celebrities by pretending to be a wealthy Arab.

After offering Tulisa a £3.5million role in a Bollywood film, he flew the singer to Los Angeles and Las Vegas and proposed to her would-be co-stars in the penthouse of a five-star hotel. For weeks he talked to her about big names from Bollywood who might appear next to her.

Hours were spent discussing the plot and Tulisa was told she would be filming in various locations including India, America and Africa. She was later arrested for allegedly helping to supply cocaine to Mahmood and was tried a year later.

However, during the hearing he was found to have altered evidence and the trial collapsed, resulting in Tulisa being completely acquitted. But her world was already shattered and she lost everything.

“I’m A Celeb was her way back,” said a source close to Tulisa. ‘It was all supposed to be such a happy time, it was supposed to be the start of something so wonderful and new for her. She’s had the worst decade, she’s lost everything and she’s been rebuilding.

“Let’s hope that when the dust settles, she can look back on the good times she had in the jungle.”

• Additional reporting from Dolly Busby in Australia.