26-year-old Maya Jama expressed her disappointment with the editors at the Sun newspaper after it recently published an interview with her estranged father.

The presenter's 52-year-old father has been a jailbird since she was a toddler, getting in and out of prison on several occasions during her childhood.

In a tweet she shared on sunday, she wrote: "Was gna ignore this but it's actually disgusting how they've been trying to pay off family members for stories for years, & here comes a Father's Day special. Smh Disappointed but not surprised."

Troubled childhood made her who she is

Maya has opened up about her relationship with her father and growing up in Bristol in past interviews. She talked about how she lost her boyfriend to gun violence as a teenager - and how that pushed her to get into the position she's in right now.

"My boyfriend was murdered when I was younger. That completely changed everything. Losing anyone at a young age is hard and loss changes your perspective on life", she said. "My aura then changed to just life is too short and I am not going to let any chance miss me. I am going to do everything in my power to be the best person I can be", she added; saying that age 16 to 17 was her "coming into Maya stage".

She is also not shy to talk about the troubled relationship with her father. She has spoken of the pain she felt as a child when her father served multiple jail sentences adding that she felt a little nervous about people finding out as they would think less of her.

In an acclaimed documentary 'When Dads Kill', she highlighted the time when her father was in and out of prison until she last saw him at age 12.

Her father, Hussein last spoke to her in an emotional reunion for a 2017 Channel 5 documentary about families whose dads go to prison.

Since then, Maya has risen to prominence, along the way she started dating rapper Stormzy with whom they dated for four years.