'Broken' Jacques O'Neill claims Love Island bosses 'pressed' him to stay on ITV2 show

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Love Island star Jacques O'Neill has admitted he regrets joining the ITV2 dating show.The 23-year-old rugby player quit the villa earlier this week in emotional scenes.He has since revealed that he "couldn't cope" inside the famous villa and claims producers asked him to stay.READ MORE: Love Island boss admits ITV2 dating show's 'not simple' as they discuss Jacques' exitITV bosses have since denied Jacques allegations.A spokesperson said: "We cannot comment on any individual's medical records owing to confidentiality and our own duty of care towards the Islanders, however we have rigorous and extensive checks in place to assess Islanders' physical and mental health in advance of being cleared to enter the Villa.

This is something we take extremely seriously. "As we said at the time, Jacques made the decision to leave and we respected that decision. "Islanders are welcome to leave should they choose to do so and we would never put pressure on someone to stay in the Villa."Rugby player Jacques entered the show as Gemma Owen's bombshell ex last month.His explosive exit came after a bust-up with Adam Collard over Paige Thorne.In his first interview since leaving the villa, Jacques told The Sun: "That morning, I spoke to Mike, the big boss, and said I wanted to leave."He calmed me down a bit and was like, 'Mate, we don’t want to see you go, you’re doing great in there, you’ll be fine'.""In the end I couldn’t deal with it, I wanted to get out of the place. "“It broke me and I was already broken.