Collins was born and raised in Bermondsey, London to Irish parents and attended the BRIT School for performing arts and technology.

Her grandmother, Angelina Collins, renamed Angela, is buried in a mass grave in St. Finbarr's Cemetery in County Cork with 72 other women, after working for 27 years in a Magdalene laundry.

[9] In September 2015 Collins had called on the Irish government to fast track the redress scheme for aging survivors, and to grant free legal aid to people taking a case to the Mother & Baby Homes Commission and for the government and the church to support and fund families to remove their loved ones from mass graves and give them their own burial.

[7] On 7 June 2017 Collins organised another protest, in which her mother Mary stood outside the Dáil to call for the Treatment of Traveller children to be investigated and acknowledged.

[13] In June 2017 Collins sent out press releases to media outlets calling for an official apology to the Traveller community by the government on behalf of the effects around the 1963 commission of itinerancy report.

Collins and her mother Mary believe that her grandmother Angela was "one of many Traveller women who ended up in Irish institutions," and they wonder why this has not been recognized.

she said "her mother, grandmother and other Travellers who were put into industrial schools, Magdalene laundries and other institutions should receive an apology from the State for what they went through.

The campaign lobbied TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, urging them to take hate speech against Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers seriously.

Following the film, Collins participated in a panel discussion, addressing the importance of educating young people about healthy relationships, and the need for more support for those affected by abuse.