I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here continues to provide insight into the private lives of its contestants, with Sunday night featuring Jo-Beth Taylor discussing the reason she quit show business despite a promising career.

Taylor blamed false rumours of a porn career for tipping her over the edge and prompting her to quit life in the limelight.

“There was a rumour that I’d done a porno and that really hurt me,” Taylor told campmate Paul Harragon on the show.

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“I felt condemned even though I’d done nothing wrong. There was nothing I could do. I just felt really attacked, even though I hadn’t done anything.”

Taylor said a list of celebrities were linked to a porn video that had been spread by someone’s boyfriend in the late 1990s, but that she had nothing to do with it.

“I was supposedly caught with someone at Crown Casino and it was supposedly shown on the screen — as if that happened, it’s so ridiculous,” she added.

At the height of her fame, Taylor was on TV shows Hey Hey it’s Saturday and Funniest Home Videos and had a hit song with ’99 Reasons’.

But the pressure of living in the spotlight got to Taylor, who says she had too much on her plate.

“I was too busy in hindsight, too much pressure,” she explained.

“I was really burnt out and couldn’t do it anymore. I woke up one day in a ball and couldn’t stop crying for like two days. I probably wasn’t thinking all that rationally and I quit.”

Taylor hinted that, in hindsight, what she went through could be classed as a nervous breakdown.

“In my day when that happened no one ever talked about being mentally unstable or having a weakness in any way. It wasn’t really talked about,” she said.

“I guess if you call being really really exhausted and stressed most of the time a nervous breakdown, that’s what it was.

“I don’t know what term you want to call it but for sure, I’m not ashamed of the fact I was just exhausted.”