Zara McDermott shaken after ‘men in balaclavas’ attempt to break into her car while she’s locked inside-Cydney Yeates-Entertainment – Metro

Zara McDermott has been left shaken after four masked men tried to break into her car while she was locked inside.

The former Love Island star, 25, had just returned to her vehicle after a shopping trip and loaded the boot with her bags, before getting in and locking the doors.

She then claims she was surrounded by men in balaclavas who repeatedly attempted to gain access to the car.

Zara revealed her horrifying ordeal in a series of videos posted on Instagram while urging her followers to always lock their car doors once they are inside.

‘I want to talk about something quite serious that just happened to me,’ she began. ‘I’m feeling really shaken up about it actually. I’m feeling a bit emotional.’

‘I put my shopping in the boot of the car, get into the car and I lock the door straight away,’ Zara said.  

Zara McDermott was left shaken up after masked men tried to break into her car while she was locked inside (Picture: Instagram)

The television personality had just returned to her car with her shopping when the ordeal took place (Picture: Instagram)

‘Within a few seconds of me putting my phone down and getting ready to go, I dropped my key on the floor, so I bend down to pick it up and I look up and there are four guys surrounding my car. Most of them had balaclavas on.

‘It all happened so quickly but the guy on the passenger side, he had a hood up and a scarf, and was trying to open the door.

‘Then I looked back, and someone was tapping on my window trying to get my attention and stop me from moving.

Zara warned her followers to always lock their cars as soon as they get inside their car (Picture: Instagram)

Zara explained she hit reverse before speeding away from her attackers (Picture: Instagram)

‘I look in the rearview mirror and I think someone is trying to get in the boot and then someone appears in front of the car, basically surrounding the car.’

Explaining how she got out of the terrifying situation, Zara continued: ‘I literally didn’t even think. I just put it into reverse, and I just put the accelerator down and just drove off.

‘I just managed to get away from that situation. I’m fine but it really made me realise that one thing that I always do, always locking the car when I’m in it, imagine if I didn’t do that.

‘I could have had everything stolen off me, they could have stolen the car, they could have they could have done something to me.’

Zara’s terrifying encounter comes just weeks after she was left in agony having had her wisdom teeth removed.

Sharing a selfie following her surgery, with an ice pack wrapped around her head, she told her followers she was in agonising pain.

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Captioning the snap, she wrote: ‘4 to 5 days post-surgery and still in agony!

‘4am to 7am is the worst time for me.’

Unfortunately, Zara was getting minimal sympathy from her Made In Chelsea boyfriend Sam Thompson on social media.

While Zara napped, Sam videoed himself laughing and wrote: ‘I’ll have what she’s having’.

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