“Finding Hope in Moments of Despair”

She’s opening up. 

Huda Mustafa, 24, star of “Love Island USA” Season 7 has revealed that she had an “extremely abusive” childhood. 

On a recent episode of the podcast “Call Her Daddy,” she shared, “My parents emigrated to America and became citizens. My dad started his own business, and my mom was a teacher. We didn’t have much as kids.”

She explained that she was one of five siblings, and her family financially struggled. 

“We played outside with sticks and didn’t get phones until we were about 16 or 17. I wasn’t a privileged child at all. Growing up, my dad was very abusive towards my mother, me, and my siblings.”

Mustafa explained that her parents separated when she was in fourth grade, and she hasn’t spoken to her father since she was sixteen. 

She recalled a striking memory from her childhood, saying, “I’m not even sure how old I was, but I distinctly remember my dad violently assaulting my mom in the room.”

She also said that she was bullied at school, to the point where she had suicidal thoughts.

“When I was in middle school, there was a point where I wanted to take my own life. I did not want to live anymore,” she revealed. 

Mustafa explained that because of those early experiences, while she was on “Love Island USA,” there were “a lot of things that triggered me in that villa. Things that I caught and was clocking and was told that I was being crazy. But I don’t know if anything was done on purpose to make me act out in a way.”

Mustafa came in third place with her partner, Chris Seely, during the Season 7 finale – before they ultimately parted ways as friends and she left single. 

Season 7 of “Love Island USA” had a lot of drama, with multiple cast members such as Cierra Ortega getting removed from the show after past racist social media posts resurfaced. 

Mustafa, who is the mother of a 4 year old daughter, also revealed,  “I didn’t have my first kiss until after high school. I didn’t have sex until after high school.”

After she found out she was pregnant she revealed she didn’t tell her mother for a few months.

“I kept it from everybody for three or four months. I didn’t know how to do this at all. I didn’t even know I was supposed to go to the doctors.”