The Traitors Ireland’s Katelyn Divilly believes there has been an undercurrent of ‘misogyny’ to the ‘borderline harassment’ directed at her online this week.

The Co. Galway woman, who became the second Traitor to be eliminated this week, peeved off some fans of fellow Traitor Paudie by turning on him at the round table, which was in response to his earlier betrayal of her trust. But she said there has been more to some of the vitriol directed at her this week.

‘I don’t think I did anything that would justify some of the commentary that I got,’ she told the Irish Mail on Sunday. Katelyn said she hadn’t got ‘much hate at all’ until last Sunday’s episode, which ‘showed me sticking up for myself’ as the spotlight came on her.

‘The lead up to me sticking up for myself didn’t make it to the audience, so I got a lot of commentary around being condescending, a witch, toxic, all this.

‘And I think it was twofold. I think people really loved Paudie, and they didn’t like that I was standing up for myself after he had thrown my name out there, and I [also] think it was just a little bit gendered and loaded.’

The organisational development consultant called it ‘a little bit sad that, in 2025, when a woman shows some strength in a competitive environment, it attracts such disproportionate hostility’. She continued: ‘Unfortunately, I think there is a lot of internalised misogyny, and I don’t think it’s intentional. I think we all have it.

We’re all guilty of it. And I do think maybe it was because people don’t like to see a woman show strength in those kinds of environments. So that would be my take on it.’

The ‘very resilient’ 32-year-old added that there is enough ‘love and happiness in my life’ to drown out the poison online, and she has been quick to block ‘a lot of people that have borderline been harassing me all day.’ ‘They’re choosing a path of hatred and a path of misery, whereas I have so much love, friendship and happiness in my life,’ she said.

Despite the online invective, Katelyn has no regrets and is ‘chuffed’ at how well the series has been received. ‘I think it’ll be on Reeling in the Years a couple of years from now,’ she said. ‘So it feels really good to be part of that. ‘I literally do not regret anything, because I’m a very spiritual person, and I really do believe that everything works out the way that it’s supposed to work out.’

Despite her master’s degree in human behaviour, likely a contributing factor to her ikely a contributing factor to her selection as a
Traitor, Katelyn said ‘nothing can prepare you’ for the intensity of the game. ‘It’s such high stakes; it’s such close quarters; you’re playing a character; you’re getting heat all the time, and you’re really tired as well,’ she said.

‘And I think people maybe forget that we’re really not getting a whole lot of sleep, and that’s really what gets you in the end, when
you’re just a bit exhausted.’ She revealed that the trio of Traitors spent at least half an hour – and sometimes up to an hour – debating who to ‘kill’ most nights.

While potentially redeeming segments are inevitably cut out, the players are happy that they have been fairly represented on the whole. ‘They have to make a decision on what has to stay in so that the storylines are consistent,’ Katelyn said. ‘So there’s a lot that doesn’t get into it.

‘But we always knew it was going to be the case. The one thing I will say, and fair play to [producers] Kite and RTÉ – there’s nothing that’s manipulated. I would just say there’s maybe some context that would be helpful.’ The second Traitor to get the
boot said that she was ‘a little bit surprised’ by Nick and Ben’s suggestion that she should have been kept on and used as a pawn.
‘I love Nick and Ben, and I just think they got a little bit big for their boots,’ she said.

‘I think their egos got the better of them. They’re having fun in the castle. ‘They have a lot of sway and a lot of influence. I think that they were probably naive to think it would work, because Nick was a name I brought up many times in the conclave, and he definitely would have been someone – if I had stayed in – that probably would have been the next murder.

‘But I think they’re both brilliant.’ She admits she was astonished to learn that Paudie and Andrew are father and son, but did wrongly suspect another relationship. ‘Amy has a tattoo of a bearded man on her leg, and it actually looks like Ben. And I was
convinced that they were related or married or something.’

Katelyn would have taken Kelley and Joanna into the conclave had she survived, and wishes they had been the Traitors from the off. ‘They were the two that I came in with. They were probably the two that I, at least in the initial stages, I trusted the most. And
look, I’m all about girl power. I think we would have done a great game.’