TV's Tribal Wives star Sass Willis has revealed how she discovered the secret to love after her one month adventure on the remote Panamanian island of Niadup living with the natives.

A total of 2.3 million people watched the then single woman, from Headington, Oxford, take relationship advice from Kuna tribeswoman Ana Lida, whose happy marriage to Diego has resulted in three children and 13 grandchildren.

Diego, the tribe's witchdoctor, had offered to concoct a love potion for Miss Willis to find a man, but the charity worker said it was her intimate conversations with 55-year-old Ana that unlocked the key to finding a loving relationship.

Since filming the BBC2 show in April last year, Miss Willis, who had previously struggled to settle into a long-term relationship, said she had found "the most wonderful man".

The 35-year-old also said she had been bombarded with emails from members of the public who have become estranged from family members after revealing on the show that she had not seen her mother since her parents divorced 22 years ago.

She said: "I was quite nervous after watching the show thinking I had opened up myself too much emotionally, and some of my friends said they didn't know the things about my past that had happened to me.

"However, the response I have had from people shows it was a really positive thing to do."

The former singleton said the advice she received on Niadup had allowed her to meet her partner, Ben, two weeks after leaving the island and also to become a 'love doctor' to her friends.

The former Milham Ford School pupil said: "Ana Lida gave me so much relationship advice and I'm in a relationship now and it's working very well.

"She told me women can be too dominating and they want to be the man in the relationship rather than being comfortable letting the man be the man.

"If women see asking for help as a sign of weakness, how can the man fulfil his role? Allowing yourself to be the woman in a relationship isn't a derogatory thing it's a positive thing.

"I passed the advice on to one of my friends who has been single for a long-time and they have now found someone too."

The amateur rower, who beat 7,000 applicants to take part in the documentary, said the experience gave her a new perspective on life.

After returning from the island she left her job as a mentoring scheme manager at Oxfordshire County Council, and now works for the charity Earthwatch, in Summertown, which protects vulnerable habitats around the world, including those of the Kuna.

Miss Willis, who was advised to find a husband by the tribe, has promised to return to the island one day with a husband.