SHE’S not even hit 30 yet - but Georgia Harrison has been through more heartbreak than most experience in a lifetime.
In 2020, the Love Island star became the victim of revenge porn when her ex-boyfriend Stephen Bear secretly filmed them during an intimate moment and shared the video online.
He was sentenced to 21 months in prison last March but was released early this January.
But things are looking up for Georgia, 29, who reveals she’s dating a new man - who’s not in the public eye.
She also battled through her pain and took part in Celebrity SAS last year, eventually winning the show in an emotional moment aired on TV earlier this month.
“I just felt so massively empowered,” she tells us. “I thought, after everything I've been through over the last couple of years, to go through the entire course and it just be me and one other female at the end; It gives me goosebumps thinking about it.
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“It was the end of this massive journey that I've been on and it felt like things were meant to happen to get to that point.”
Georgia’s experience on SAS was all the more special, as the night before she flew out to New Zealand to film it, she discovered the Ministry of Justice were changing the law on image-based sexual abuse.
Thanks to her tireless campaigning, prosecutors no longer need to prove that the accused intended to cause distress by sharing photos without the victim’s consent.
“That’s the biggest achievement of my life so far,” she says. “It was the day before I got on the plane to go to SAS and I didn't find out until the night before that it was changing.
“I was with my best friend and my mum, screaming in the kitchen when I found out.
“It was a massive contemplation moment of my life, and I was just getting my head around the fact the law’s changed, then the next thing you know, I'm at a glacier with Pete Wicks, doing SAS.”
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Georgia was in SAS: Who Dares Wins with some huge sportsmen like Olympic boxer Anthony Ogogo and former England rugby player Chris Robshaw.
But it was just her and female world boxing champion Lani Daniels who made it to the end.
“It was just so much harder than it looks,” she says. “It's the living environment, it's everything.
“You can't go anywhere on your own, you can't go to the toilet on your own, you barely sleep, you're cold all the time.
“Your life is no longer in your hands for that small period of time, but it's also something that builds you massively as a person and makes you feel strong.”
As well as her spirituality, Georgia believes it was her past trauma that pushed her through to the very end.
She says: “I feel like what I've been through has made me stronger, made me braver, made me more empathetic and just made me someone that really has compassion for other people, specifically women, who are going through any of the stuff that I go through.”
