Ex-reality star Laurina Fleure ‘humiliated' by party video
The ex-reality star says she plans to focus on staying sober after being captured snorting a mystery substance in a “humiliating” video.
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Bachelor star and reality TV favourite Laurina Fleure says an online video that shows her indulging in a suspicious substance at a party is “humiliating”.
Fleure, a Melbourne fashion identity who has appeared on I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here and Bachelor In Paradise, is seen in the video that was posted on the @celeb_spellcheck Instagram page on Sunday, leaning over and apparently snorting a substance off a bench top before stepping back and saying to her friends: “I did it.”
The phone footage was taken at a private party in Melbourne on Saturday evening and originally posted on the Instagram account of a guest at the gathering.
A horrified Fleure was alerted to the video early Sunday morning.
“It is embarrassing. I am humiliated,” she said.
Fleure said she had hoped 2021 would be her year of sobriety, but said she had fallen off the wagon a month ago and had recently been on a blowout.
“I just fell off the wagon on Valentine’s Day,” she said.
“My partner and I were completely sober this whole year. Our intention was to do this whole year sober.
“For that first six weeks (of 2021) we did not even have a sip of alcohol and then we had a drink on Valentine’s Day and, I guess I am going to focus on the rest of the year.
“We have had a little bit of a blow out recently. I am going to focus on staying sober and not even drinking.”
She said while she tried to maintain a healthy lifestyle, she liked a party and going out to have a good time.
“I always aspire to live a sober life just mainly for beauty and anti-ageing, and things like that, but there is also balance in life too,” she said.
“Sometimes I try to be absolutely as good as I can and then the scales tip the other way and I have a blowout sometimes when I go out.”
Fleure said the nightmare video had left her stunned and hurt.
“I feel sick. I am humiliated,” she said. “I don’t know what else to say. I am really embarrassed.”
Fleure shot to fame in 2014 with her “dirty street pie” quip when Blake Garvey took her to Harry’s Cafe De Wheels.
She was less than impressed with their low-key date, when other contestants were being taken on glamorous one-on-one dates.
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