The Saturdays star Una Healy recalled feeling “really scared” when she received death threats to her home phone.
Una opened up to The Irish Independent about her tough time with secondary school bullies. Una remembers feeling really intimidated by the bullies, “There was a couple of times when they said, ‘we’re going to beat you up after school’. Just threatening things like that. But they were empty threats in the end.”
“Nothing ever happened, but I would literally walk into school every morning worried and so scared that it might happen. I was really scared.”
With Una’s father being a doctor in the town, the bullies were able to find her home phone number, which escalated things to outside school hours, “They would say things like, ‘I hope your house burns down’… My sister got that call one night. I was at my uncle Declan’s gig with my parents, and my sister was on her own at home. She said that they rang and said: ‘I hope the house burns down and I hope you die,’” she explained.
Although this was no doubt an extremely hard experience to go through, the singer doesn’t feel that it impacted her in later life and has no ill feelings toward the bullies now.
“To be honest, I feel it toughened me up as well. In a way, I am glad that those kind of things happened to me in life at a young age. I nearly left the school. But I didn’t give in to it…
“I have no grudge whatsoever at all to any of the people now. It never affected me further in life… I gave a bit back as well. I wasn’t one to just take anything that anyone said to me. I would stand up for myself,” she said.
Una has come a long way since then, being a succesful singer and most recently announcing that she is the new face of beauty brand IsaDora Ireland.
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We can’t wait to see what’s next from Una.