Megan McKenna has moved to Germany full-time after machete-wielding intruders left her terrified to be in her own home on her own.
The former The Only Way Is Essex star, 33, revealed the incident – which happened two years ago – left her scared to live in England by herself while her husband Oliver Burke is based in Germany.
Oliver, 29, is a football player who is currently signed with Union Berlin and previously played with SV Werder Bremen.
She had previously spoken about moving to Germany in September 2024, ahead of giving birth to her son, but not spoken about the incident which triggered the decision to make it permanent.
Appearing on the Great Company with Jamie Laing podcast, Megan said: ‘I don’t talk about this with a lot of people because I was worried and scared at the time because people were in prison for it, and when there was a trial going on, so I wasn’t able to talk about it.
‘I was robbed really badly in my own home. It scared me so much to be in the UK and to live in the UK on my own, because obviously Ollie’s in Germany.’
The reality star explained in the upcoming interview, released on Wednesday, that her husband had to travel back to Germany the day after they landed in the UK from holiday, and she was by herself in their home.
She fell asleep around 11pm and then woke to find the house ‘shaking’.
‘I was such a disorientated mess. I was like, “What?”. And then I just knew that it was happening to me, and I was like, “Oh my God”,’ she recalled.
‘I get goose pimples now thinking about it. They were inside my house, but I lock my bedroom door every night because I always worry about something happening to me when I’m on my own.
‘The next thing I know, my mirror has come off my wall, and they’re hacking a hole through my wall with a baseball bat.
‘They’re three masked men with machetes and baseball bats, and they managed to hack a hole in my wall because it was a fake wall going onto my dressing room, linked to my bedroom.’
Megan, who was terrified the intruders would kill her dog, quickly phoned the police.
‘They were in my house for seven minutes. It was the longest seven minutes I’ve ever experienced in my entire life, and the police were saying to me, “Don’t speak to them”.
‘I said, “I can hear they’ve got weapons. They’re hacking my wall down,” and they were like, “We’re on our way.”
‘And I was like, “No, they’re hacking my wall down.” And they were like, “Please don’t talk to them.”
‘I said, “If I don’t go and talk to them and ask them what they want, they’re going to come in and kill my dog.” I went over to them. I was naked.’
The X Factor: Celebrity winner approached one of the men, who was wearing a balaclava, and he took her jewellery.
The star also said she cut her foot and so there was ‘blood everywhere’.
The intruders left after getting Megan’s jewellery, which she now thinks was the only thing they wanted, and said the break-in was ‘obviously targeted’.
She added: ‘I was like, “I’m not safe in my own home.”
‘The police were amazing at the time, but I was then going through IVF to have [her son] Landon, and they wanted me to go on trial.
‘And I just said to them, like, I actually can’t physically do that. Go through it. They got caught, and then they went on trial, and then a year later, they just got let out. They’re just roaming the roads.’
Megan said going through such a terrifying experience ‘changes you forever’.
The star, who rose to fame on MTV reality series Ex on the Beach, welcomed her son Landon with Oliver in October 2024. The couple married in June 2025.