Bachelor star Heather Maltman victim of horrendous bullying

Bachelor star Heather Maltman says she was bullied so severely in high school she stayed home for eight months and questioned whether she should even be alive.

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In an emotional video for artists Gillie and Marc's latest campaign Heather reveals the nightmare time she had with schoolyard bullies.

"There were moments where I actually questioned whether or not I should even be here and by completely segregating myself I was giving weight to the thoughts they were creating for me," she revealed.

"I started to isolate myself because I allowed the thoughts of these kids...to dictate my value and to dictate whether or not I was worthy of being there and being alive."

Heather explains she had to start grade eight at a different private school because the kids she went to primary school with threatened to "beat the crap" out of her if she went to their high school.

"When I moved into high school, which was the private school, I changed school because the girls at the primary school I went to told me if I went to their high school they would literally beat the crap out of me after school," she explained.

"When I got to the private school I became friends with a few of the girls and quite a few of the guys, I was quiet popular...then I found out the only way I could stay in their group was if I started teasing my older sister and when I refused to do that I then became the subject of their bullying," she continued.

Heather was teased because her mum worked in the library to help pay for expensive private school fees and it became so torturous she stopped attending school altogether.

"I became so badly bullied that I actually stopped going to school for about eight months in year eight. I had decided that it was better to stay home than actually go."

After changing to a public school Heather says she started working in a pizza shop to put herself through school

"It is funny when things like that happen in your life, that fear of not being enough or the fear of being so lost that you don't know how to find your way out, I don't think that ever leaves you but you always find a way to just let it be a part of who you are and let you grow," she said.

The video is the ninth in husband and wife team Gillie and Marc's series of video interviews called The Lost Dogs of Hope Project about feeling lost and how talking is the first step to finding yourself again.

Head to their Facebook page for more videos from stars like Layne Beachley, Jolene Anderson and Mia Freedman.