The Traitors star John McManus denies bullying fellow contestant after backlash
Traitors' John McManus has insisted “I’m no bully”, after facing a backlash over his clash with co-star Aaron Evans on the show.John, from Edinburgh, suffered a torrent of online abuse after viewers saw him arguing with Aaron on the reality show – where contestants staying in a Scottish castle had to identify “Traitors”.But John insists the dispute with Aaron was overblown – and he would not have been so harsh with him if he had known he was suffering from the hyper-activity disorder ADHD.John told the Daily Record: “When I watched the show and discovered he had ADHD, I felt absolutely devastated.“The way it was edited shocked me.
I’m not a bully, I’m a nice person, but in that pressure cooker environment, when you are filming between 10 and 16 hours a day and completely exhausted, you react accordingly.“Had I known of his condition, I’d have reacted in a completely different way.
I had suspicions Wilf and Aaron were Traitors.“Aaron was the only person given permission to leave the Round Table, which wasn’t allowed in the rules, and that made me suspicious.
None of us knew that was because he has ADHD, which he revealed to viewers in the diary room.“It was none of my business but his condition meant he was hyper all the time.
