Ekin-Su Culculoglu reminisced on her journey to Turkey with the British Red Cross and said she considered adopting a kid after seeing a girl who had lost her mother.
The former Love Island star, 28, returned to her homeland in the aftermath of a terrible earthquake that killed 59,000 people.
She visited with her partner Davide Sanclimenti, 27, in March and has since confessed how’moving’ and ‘traumatising’ it was to witness her original country in such ruins.
She stated she met numerous children who had been abandoned by their parents while there and remembers one specific little four-year-old girl who began calling her “mum.”
Ekin spoke on Good Morning Britain on Tuesday, telling Susanna Reid and Ed Balls about her experience and how difficult it was for her to leave the young child behind.
She said: ‘I would love to take her.


‘It was traumatising – the whole experience. But once you bring one home you want to help them all.
‘I really just want to raise awareness. We don’t know how lucky we are to be in the UK.
‘She wanted me to stay and be her mum because she had lost hers. I couldn’t hold my tears in. It felt very overwhelming.
‘Some of the other children had also lost family members.
‘I wish I could have taken them back to England. They feel alone and need love and support.’
The actress has family in the nation and is of Turkish origin, having spent two years in Istanbul.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CrtDT8hNu7c

She continued explaining the trauma the young girl – and the rest of Turkey – faced during the time of the natural disaster.
‘She doesn’t remember much of the actual event. It was 4am and all of a sudden it was black, everything was shaking, the walls were coming down and she was screaming, “mum, mum, mum” and she doesn’t remember anything else,’ Ekin revealed.
‘I think she has a little brother as well and that’s all it is, she just wants mum. Anyone who gives her love, she attaches herself and cannot let go.
‘I think she was about four, very young.’
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1.