Gemma Collins convinced her great-great grandfather was Jack The Ripper – and plans to contact his ghost to find out
GEMMA Collins is convinced Jack The Ripper was her great-great grandfather – and plans to contact his ghost to find out the truth.
The Towie legend made the bizarre claim while filming an upcoming episode of BBC show Who Do You Think You Are?.
While filming for the ancestry programme, the 43-year-old found out some of her distant relatives lived in Dorset Street in East London, where the notorious serial killer left the bodies of some of his victims in 1888.
And former Towie star Gemma doesn’t think it’s a coincidence that her great-great grandfather William Williams lived on the same street.
She told the Daily Star: “My great great grandfather worked in a workhouse and died there. I think that’s the reason they can’t find Jack The Ripper… because it was him.
“The writing is on the wall. It could only happen to me. It would be my luck that he would be one of my relatives.”
Now Gemma plans to contact the ghost of Jack The Ripper using her own “psychic powers” to find out the truth.
Gemma continued: “No one knows who the ripper was, but we lived next door to where a lot of his victims were being killed. You just don’t know.
“I’m ecstatic. I always knew there was more to me and my family. The macabre of it – I just think it’s a hilarious story. Obviously the murders were terrible and I get that.
“But how could it be that my family were on the same street as Jack The Ripper’s victims? You just couldn’t make it up.
“You’ve got The GC and Jack the Ripper. I’m an unusual character and that’s definitely come from somewhere.”
It comes after Gemma revealed the secret side hustle that’s helped her become a millionaire.
Speaking to The Sun recently, Gemma told how she’s been investing in property for years.
She said: “I don’t worry about my future because I’ve put everything in place -but I’ve done it late in life.
“I had normal jobs and I’m not sure there were pension schemes then, I am self-employed, so I did it late in life.
“I was 40 when I started to [invest], I wish I had the knowledge that I have now in my 20s.”