Married At First Sight’s Stacey Hampton DELETES Instagram and looks stressed at Adelaide Airport after an interstate trip – as police say she is NOT an essential worker and must self-quarantine for 14 days
Stacey Hampton looked stressed as she waited for a taxi outside Adelaide Airport on Wednesday following an interstate trip to Melbourne.
The Married At First Sight star, 26, was seen having a tense phone conversation as she emerged from the domestic terminal with her luggage.
The sighting came shortly after she deleted her Instagram account, telling Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday she was fed up with the ‘negativity’.
Flying in: Stacey Hampton looked stressed as she waited for a taxi outside Adelaide Airport on Wednesday following an interstate trip to Melbourne
Stacey said she decided to delete her Instagram page so she could focus more on her new charity, which is centred around helping women who are suffering from post-natal depression.
‘It’s a huge passion of mine,’ she said of the cause, adding that she also ‘very much’ suffered from post-natal depression after giving birth to her two sons.
She added: ‘I’ve deleted my Instagram for the moment. I’m just distancing myself from the negativity and all that comes with it.
Stepping out: The 26-year-old former Married At First Sight star was seen talking animatedly into her phone as she emerged from the airport terminal with her luggage
‘I’m just focusing on doing my charity and doing the right thing, and then you’ll probably see me back on Instagram soon at some point.’
Stacey said she was travelling back home to Adelaide after visiting Melbourne for work to discuss her emerging charity project.
She confessed there was ‘a little bit of hiccups’ with the current state border closures, but insisted everything was ‘fine’ in the end.
Offline: Her outing comes after she deleted her Instagram page, telling Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday that she was fed up with the ‘negativity’
‘I had an essential workers clearance form, which they didn’t realise I had, so I was fine. They had to look into my clearance, which was fine,’ she explained.
In a statement to Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday, South Australia Police said: ‘SAPOL can confirm that a 26-year-old woman arriving from Melbourne was stopped at Adelaide Airport this afternoon, police determined that she was not an essential traveller and therefore she was issued with a direction to self-quarantine for a period of 14 days.’
Later clarifying her initial comments to Daily Mail Australia on the back of South Australia Police’s statement, Stacey said: ‘This is incorrect. It was just over my form [and] whether or not it was essential.
‘I’ve deleted my Instagram for the moment. I’m just distancing myself from the negativity and all that comes with it,’ she told Daily Mail Australia
‘Then I proceeded to collect my son from school.’
Stacey said that while she ‘hopes’ to be back on Instagram soon, the charity is taking ‘priority’ in her life right now.
‘I just want to focus on the charity. That’s my main priority. And distancing myself away from the negativity,’ she explained.
Over it: Stacey said the ‘negativity’ on her Instagram was coming from ‘online bullying, it’s coming from other contestants’. Pictured with former partner Michael Goonan on MAFS
‘Just rebuilding myself, getting myself back together.’
She said the ‘negativity’ on her Instagram was coming from ‘online bullying, it’s coming from other contestants’.
‘[I] just want to be able to focus on the charity itself rather than everything else,’ she said.
Misunderstanding: Stacey confessed there was ‘a little bit of hiccups’ with the current state border closures at the airport, but insisted everything was ‘fine’ in the end