Stephanie Davis has opened up on her stalker hell during an interview on This Morning.
The former Hollyoaks star spoke to Phillip Schofield and Rochelle Humes about her terrifying ordeal after her stalker, Alex Boston, was jailed.
On Friday, January 28, Boston, of Moreton, Wirral, was sentenced to 28 weeks in prison at Sefton Complex Case Court in Bootle, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
The court also issued an indefinite restraining order which bans him from contacting Stephanie or approaching her home.
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When appearing on This Morning, a clip was shared, which Stephanie filmed, from the home she shared with young son, Caben.
It showed her stalker in her garden outside her home as she screamed in fear.
Stephanie said of the stalking, which started in March last year: "There were daffodils left outside my drive. That was the first time it started.
"My little boy Caben saw them and said, ‘Mummy, can we take them inside?’ And I didn’t think anything of it, so I let him put them in the plant pot.
"Now, on reflection, if he was watching me, he [the stalker] saw that as a sign of acceptance and it just carried on."
She added: "The daffodils kept coming back. I started checking my Instagram messages, I never really look in my requests. Then I started to see fake accounts, constant.
"I can’t tell you how many there were. I’d block them and he’d make another one. There were lengthy messages and disturbing, that’s when I started to notice."
Rochelle said the content of the stalker's message was that he was convinced they should be together, to which Stephanie commented: "As soon as he mentioned Caben - and he left presents for Caben - my blood started to boil.
"I was really scared. I was a single mum, living at home on my own - petrifying. I had to leave my home with Caben - our safe place was violated."
When Phillip asked her what that kind of experience does to your head, Stephanie, 28, said it was "terrible".
"I think it definitely had a big impact to my mental health. I struggle with my mental health anyway, but when that happened my anxiety was through the roof," the actress said.
"I was constantly having panic attacks, I couldn’t sleep, I was up and kept checking in on Caben, panicking, imagining he wasn’t there, going through all those motions."
Following Friday's conviction, Stephanie says she was able to sleep for the "first time in a long time."
"I feel relieved," she told the This Morning hosts. "I slept for the first time in a long time.
"I still think it'll take a while… even when I left my house yesterday, I’ve got a rustley plant at the end of my drive and it [scared me]."
Stephanie is now trying to move on with her life.
The former soap star went 'Instagram official with her new man Joe Mckalroy on Sunday night, posing for a picture together at an event in Manchester.
"Thanking the Lord for you, and Thank you for making so so happy," she captioned the post.
Stephanie has a five-year-old son, Caben, with reality television personality Jeremy McConnell.
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