Ruby Wax’s damning comments about I’m A Celeb revealed after show exit – as TV star is forced to eat her words

Ruby Wax proved she’s tougher than most after tucking into a witchety grub, pig’s testicle and vomit fruit jus during her appearance on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!

The comedian, 72, hasn’t held back when talking about her lack of sex drive, layers of Botox or her wish that she was a lesbian when she joined the cast of this year’s series.

However it wasn’t long ago that Ruby herself vowed she would never be ‘eating a cockroach on an island’ and in fact even went as far as to say she would never make the leap into reality TV.

So Ruby was left eating her words with her stint on the ITV show before she became the fifth campmate to leave the jungle on Wednesday night.

She has charmed audiences after the star stepped away from her TV career in the early 2000s following her show Ruby Wax Meets being axed in 1998 and her chat show ending in 2003.

Ruby has also had a well-publicised battle with clinical depression and previously told how she ‘lost her mojo’ while struggling with her mental health on television, and admitted it severely bruised her ego to be replaced.

Ruby Wax has eaten her words after vowing to NEVER do reality TV after leaving showbiz – as her damning comments about I’m A Celeb are revealed

In 2021 the comedian, 72, said she would never be ‘eating a cockroach on an island’ and in fact even went as far as to say she would never make the leap into reality TV

And in damning comments made in 2021 she stressed that she’s glad her showbiz career came to an end when it did, because she may well have ‘harmed herself’ if she’d ended up on reality TV, which she believes would have been the inevitable next step.

Appearing on the Crisis What Crisis? podcast, Ruby implied she would never do a show like I’m A Celeb as she explained: ‘If I was still on TV I would be on wherever you eat a cockroach on an island and probably harmed myself in some way because I’m too smart.

‘I would have caught myself saying “look you loser” because as a woman you’re not allowed to age on TV. I have a different technique, just keep moving forward.’

Ruby also spoke about leaving the showbiz industry as she explained: ‘I was thrown out of it.’

‘It was a mutual agreement, I started to hit depression while I was on TV, and that made it really difficult.’

‘I started to do a daily show and then I did some horror shows and then some sell out game show,’ said Ruby.

‘I couldn’t think of any funny lines, which meant my brain was shutting down and someone had to feed me funny lines through the speaker and panic was setting in.

‘It shows I lost my mojo and coincidentally, I was replaced, and that really tears your insides out because of your ego.’

Ruby became the fifth campmate to leave the jungle on Wednesday night, in an exit that stunned both the camp, and viewers at home

‘It shows I lost my mojo and coincidentally, I was replaced, and that really tears your insides out because of your ego’ (Ruby pictured with Donald Trump on her show in 2000)

However Ruby was clearly persuaded to make her TV return with the star reported to be earning an eye-watering £95,000 for her stint down under (pictured in 2000)

However Ruby was clearly persuaded to make her TV return with the star reported to be earning an eye-watering £95,000 for her stint down under.

She is thought to be worth around £4million to £5million ($5.2million to $6.5million) after finding fame on ITV sitcom Girls On Top in 1985 and going on to be an interviewer on shows such as the BBC’s Ruby Wax Meets.

After stepping away from showbiz, Ruby went on to graduate with a master’s degree in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy from Kellogg College at Oxford University in 2013.

She has since also published many books including A Mindfulness Guide for Survival, which offers advice on how to address issues such as change, uncertainty and loneliness.

Ruby has called her studies in psychotherapy a ‘life raft’, which she finds far ‘more exciting’ than her life in television.

‘If I was doing it now, it would be a tragedy,’ said Ruby. ‘There would be such unhappiness, I wouldn’t come out of an institution you could visit me in there.

‘I know when there’s a life raft, I jumped on that neuroscience like a mother, and it was totally exciting, more exciting than television.’

After crossing the famous jungle bridge Ruby was reunited with her husband Ed Bye, who flew out to Australia to greet her

Ruby bid farewell to the jungle in Wednesday’s show, with many of the remaining seven celebrities breaking down in tears as they learned of her exit.

Speaking to hosts Ant and Dec about her experience, Ruby described her remaining campmates as ‘family,’ and said she was ‘sad’ to bid farewell to them.

She told them: ‘I can’t believe it. It was fantasy land, suddenly there’s a light. We were just a cluster of loving people.

‘Totally forgot the outside world, we shaved each other, investigated each other’s lower regions. I was checking Lisa’s bowels this morning, doesn’t get any closer.

‘When I signed up I thought, “Let’s give this a go” but I wasn’t expecting this. This is family and I’m sad I lost them. I wasn’t expecting this. I was the queen, “How can she be abducted?”

‘I got away with everything by charm. I was the queen but not voted so, I had to behead someone.

‘When I became leader, they were my servants. When you’re leader and you’re so in the walls of reality, you are the leader.

‘I can’t believe we’ve been voted out but OK, so be it.’