Bell’s palsy is a type of paralysis that temporarily affects the ability to control the facial muscles.
Tulisa is in the celebrity jungle alongside the likes of Coleen Rooney, McFly star Danny Jones and Love Island’s Maura Higgins.
Some derogatory comments on social media during the show’s debut on Sunday suggested she looked markedly different to how she looked several years ago.
Tulisa was a judge on The X Factor in 2012 when Rylan finished fourth as a contestant.
She hadn’t had “any surgery until recently… only fillers”, she told Atwood, despite speculation in the press to the contrary.
She said she first started getting the injectables after the Bell’s palsy several years back had left her face inflamed and swollen, making her a recluse.
“I had a massive burst of inflammation and it went down but my whole face dropped,” she said. “I couldn’t move it, my face remained like that for seven months, I didn’t go out, I just hid in the house.
“That was very stressful and my face still wasn’t right so I started getting fillers to balance out the symmetry,” she added.
She described the process of trying to restore facial symmetry as a “vicious cycle”.
Tulisa told Attwood that earlier this year she had an ultrasound which detected “three chronically infected cysts” in her cheek. Surgery removed some of the cysts.
She said their presence wasn’t connected to the filler and that she was awaiting surgery to remove any remaining matter.
