X Factor hopeful Rylan Clark has admitted he used to inject himself with a drug used to treat cancer patients in a desperate bid to top up his tan.
X Factor wannabe Rylan Clark has confessed to injecting himself with a cancer drug he bought on the internet to help boost his tan (Picture: ITV)
The 23-year-old is happy to reveal he's a 'tanorexic', insisting he couldn't resist the jabs even though he woke up one morning convinced he was having a heart attack.
The model from Essex had been injecting himself daily for the past four weeks the day he feared for his life.
'I couldn't breathe properly and thought I was going to die. It was scary,' he said.
Rylan Clark is a self-confessed tanorexic (Picture: Xposurephotos.com)
But despite the frightening ordeal, Rylan kept using Melanotan II, which he'd bought on the internet, for another two months.
'I'm vain. I couldn't help myself. It was crazy. I'm a tanorexic. But I took things too far.
'Growing up I got a lot of stick for being gay, fat, pasty and ginger. I thought to myself, "Well I can't change the gay thing but everything else I can sort out",' he told The Sun On Sunday.
Rylan stopped taking the banned drug when he started getting white spots on his stomach.
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