Matt won the public vote back in 2016 (Picture: ITV)

The X Factor winner Matt Terry has revealed exactly what happened to him after he won the former ITV reality singing competition.

Matt, a British singer and songwriter, 30, won the talent show in 2016, beating competition from Saara Aalto after being mentored by Nicole Scherzinger.

He became just the second winner from The X Factor to release an original song as his winner’s single – the song was titled When Christmas Comes Around.

Despite that single doing well in the UK charts, Matt was only signed to Simon Cowell’s label Syco and associated record company RCA for one album.

Matt has now revealed that he was dropped from RCA via email after his solitary album, Trouble, only reached as high as number 29 on the UK albums charts.

He told The Sun: ‘I did win, which was incredible and it changed my life, and I truly live by everything happening because it’s supposed to.

Matt Terry was dropped by his labelafter winning The X Factor (Picture: ITV)

‘But I feel like it was a dark time afterwards. I don’t think I was supported, no one checked on me, no one saw if I was okay.’

His second single, titled Sucker for You, failed to make the UK top 40 and an additional single, Try, which was released in 2018, failed to chart.

Things then took a turn for the worst: ‘I got an email from my manager – it was a forwarded email from my label saying, “We’re not going to do a second album”.’

Matt was one of the last winners of the singing competition (Picture: ITV/Thames)

Matt then said that he felt at times as though his own name ‘didn’t belong’ to him, but that he’s managed to craft a career writing songs for K-pop artists.

And he’s not done making his own music either, with new single You Don’t Know Nothing having been released last week ahead of a brand new album.

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Matt’s comments come just days after former contestant Eoghan Quigg revealed he was told to ‘play on’ his on-screen ‘romance’ with Diana Vickers in 2008.

‘We genuinely were just buddies going through a crazy experience – the press wanted something to be there that wasn’t,’ he told Metro.co.uk.

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He won the competition in 2016.