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Finn Tapp says Love Island helped him heal after he was dropped from football team aged 18

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Finn Tapp has revealed that Love Island helped him heal after he "felt like a failure" due to being dropped as a professional football player aged just 18.The reality star, 22, has bravely opened up about his mental health battle when he was dropped by his football team in a bid to help other young aspiring players going through the same thing.

Finn was signed by MK Dons when he was just seven years old but was left crushed 11 years later when he wasn't offered the extension of his contract.

Speaking exclusively to OK!, the reality star admitted that he didn't take the news "too well" and it was a "strange time" as his friends were starting their careers and university while he was left thinking: "What the hell do I do here?" Get exclusive celebrity stories and fabulous photoshoots straight to your inbox with OK!'s daily newsletter .

Recalling the time, he said: "It was a strange one, a lot of my pals they had just started a job or they were still in uni and I'd already been told that what I was working towards had been pushed aside from me. "It was almost like being made redundant at 18-years-old, so it was like: 'What the hell do I do here?'" Thankfully, Finn had a "brilliant support network" around him at the time, he added: "I've always had a brilliant support network with friends and family, they were brilliant in helping me get through it and sort of helping me look at it in a more clear minded way. "It certainly wasn't the nicest time, I think just purely because I put so much into it and sort of had this image in my head of where I thought I would be in five years time. "I think when that didn't happen and when that sort of got put on hold a little bit, I didn't really take it too well.

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