Sharon Gafka said she was spiked and a friend saved her

Sharon Gaffka says she’s convinced a friend saved her life after her drink was spiked in a bar.

In a new interview the campaigning Love Island star – who is now pushing for more awareness on the issue – said she had no memory of ending up in A&E following an incident when she was out with pals.

But luckily one of her friends was a doctor, noticed something was wrong and took her to hospital.

She told GB News that she believed her drink had been spiked by a person on an adjacent table after a group came over to chat to her and her friends and thanked those mates for keeping her alive.

“My friends being there definitely saved me,” she told Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster. “I think, for me, the key part of my case is that my friends were so aware of who I am as a person and were aware that I’d gone away and not come back for such a long period which wasn’t like me.,” she said.

“If I could offer any advice it’s to always be aware of your surroundings, always be aware of the people you’re with and make sure that nobody just disappears and goes off because I think that for me, played a key part in my recovery.”

She made her comments during Breakfast with Eamonn and Isabel on GB News after the publication of a report by MPs that says that the crime is under-reported and victims are often not taken seriously.

It revealed that of 1,895 spiking victims that responded to a questionnaire, almost nine in ten victims said that they received no support after the incident.

Sharon said: “My best friend is a doctor, she was there with me.

“She was actually the person that sat there at the table and said ‘oh, she has not been back for 10 minutes’ and went back to find me.

“All of my friends phoned paramedics, paramedics arrived and they just said that I needed to go home and sleep off but because my friends are doctors she said no there’s no way we’ll take you home, you’re going to hospital.”

She added: “My first response wasn’t I’d been spiked, it was my friends that were like look, we’ve never seen you like this before and my friends are in industries where they’ve seen spiking happen on multiple occasions.

“They knew what to look out for. The next day I had really severe anxiety.

“It was more like, you know, from what I’ve seen, what I’ve researched is similar to what you’d experience on a comedown from drugs and it’s nothing I’ve ever experienced before I had really severe anxiety…it was really, really difficult.”