‘I did not want to live anymore’

She’s opening up. 

Huda Mustafa, 24, star of “Love Island USA” Season 7 has revealed that she had an “extremely abusive” childhood. 

During a recent appearance on the podcast, “Call Her Daddy,” she said, “My parents, they immigrated to America and got their citizenship, and my dad, he had his own business. And my mother, she was a teacher. And, you know, we weren’t fortunate as kids.”

She explained that she was one of five siblings, and her family financially struggled. 

“We played with sticks outside. We didn’t have phones till we were like 16, 17. Like, I’m not a privileged child. I was never that. And growing up, my dad was extremely abusive. He was very abusive towards my mother, towards me and my siblings.”

Mustafa explained that her parents separated when she was in fourth grade, and she hasn’t spoken to her father since she was sixteen. 

“A vivid memory I have as a kid is like, I don’t even know how old I was, but I remember hearing my dad beating the s–t out of my mom in the room,” she said. 

She also said that she was bullied at school, to the point where she had suicidal thoughts.

“When I was in middle school, there was a point where I wanted to take my own life. I did not want to live anymore,” she revealed. 

Mustafa explained that because of those early experiences, while she was on “Love Island USA,” there were “a lot of things that triggered me in that villa. Things that I caught and was clocking and was told that I was being crazy. But I don’t know if anything was done on purpose to make me act out in a way.”

Mustafa came in third place with her partner, Chris Seely, during the Season 7 finale – before they ultimately parted ways as friends and she left single. 

Season 7 of “Love Island USA” had a lot of drama, with multiple cast members such as Cierra Ortega getting removed from the show after past racist social media posts resurfaced. 

Mustafa, who is the mother of a 4 year old daughter, also revealed,  “I didn’t have my first kiss until after high school. I didn’t have sex until after high school.”

After she found out she was pregnant she revealed she didn’t tell her mother for a few months.

“I kept it from everybody for three or four months. I didn’t know how to do this at all. I didn’t even know I was supposed to go to the doctors.”