Megan McKenna has moved to Germany full-time after an armed break-in at her home left her too afraid to live in the UK alone. The former TOWIE star said the burglary changed where she felt safe staying, while Oliver Burke was based in Germany.
“I was robbed really badly in my own home,” she said on the Great Company With Jamie Laing podcast. McKenna also said the incident happened two years ago, shortly after she and Burke returned from their honeymoon in Montenegro.
Germany and the UK split
McKenna said Burke flew back to Germany the day after landing in the UK, leaving her alone at their home when the break-in happened. She said the fear lasted long after the night itself, and that she no longer wanted to live in the UK on her own.
“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,” she said. That is the practical line in this story: the burglary did not just end with stolen jewellery, it altered the couple’s day-to-day setup and pushed her into a full-time move abroad.
Three masked men
McKenna said three masked men armed with machetes and baseball bats broke through a false wall into her dressing room. She called police and was told not to confront them. During the break-in, she feared for her dog’s safety, then later approached one of the men, who took her jewellery.
“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,” she said. The scale of what she described helps explain why she now locks her bedroom door every night, even two years later.
Why she stayed quiet
“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,” McKenna said. That leaves the legal ending of the case out of public view, even as the personal consequence is clear: she has changed countries because she no longer wanted to stay alone in England.
For readers following McKenna, the point is not the burglary itself but the aftershock. A home invasion two years ago still shapes where she sleeps, where she lives, and how she manages being on her own in the UK.
