The former Emmerdale actress, who filmed the Channel 4 series before her controversial stint on Celebrity Big Brother, burst into tears and suffered a crippling panic attack in the hours leading up to her shock exit.
Roxanne woke up in the middle of the night after smelling the smoke from the campfire and suffered a breakdown.
The upsetting footage showed Roxanne shaking and crying uncontrollably as her co-stars, including Pete Wicks and Martin Kemp, tried to comfort her.
Roxanne managed to explain the smell of smoke was bringing back horrific memories of when she was trapped inside a house fire with her family.
She told her co-stars: “Smoke that nearly killed my family in a house fire when I was 16, the smoke, the smell is taking me back to that time.
“It feels like it’s happening again.”
The next morning, Roxanne told the others she was struggling to cope following the flashbacks she suffered in the night.
She explained: “The smoke reminded me of gasping for air thinking I was going to die.
“I want to last the whole way but it’s not the physical challenge, it’s the mental challenge.”
Talking to the cameras, Roxanne then decided to leave and begged the show’s producers to come and take her from the island – just five days after she arrived.
She says: “I’m really suffering and struggling with my thoughts.
“Please can you come and get me now. I cannot cope. Enough is enough.”
Viewers had also had enough of her, having already grown tired of her antics on CBB after accusing Ryan Thomas of punching her during her time in the house.
Taking to Twitter, one wrote: "Roxanne Pallett is one seriously disturbed human #CelebrityIsland" while another tweeted: "What a shocker that Roxanne has quit after showing her acting skills again with crocodile tears…#majoreyeroll #CelebrityIsland".
A third agreed, writing: "So….Roxanne has done a runner again. Two lies, two exits. There's a pattern here. What a fake.#CelebrityIsland."
Meanwhile a fourth viewer tweeted: "Sadly, whether Roxanne is telling the truth or not, people just will not believe her."
A number of viewers shared gifs celebrating her departure by boat, with one using a Fresh Prince of Bel Air as reference.
They wrote above it: "#CelebrityIsland When Roxanne finally leaves and you can actually enjoy the show now."
Another posted a gif of Tom Hanks waving and wrote: "Watching Roxanne leave The Island like…"
A third simply wrote: "DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA! Bore off Roxanne #CelebrityIsland."
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