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Tulisa reveals she was sexually assaulted as a teenager

Tulisa has revealed how she was sexually assaulted as a teenager after her drink was spiked on a night out. 

The X-Factor judge, who opens up about the ordeal in her new autobiography, 'Honest, My Story So Far,' recalls the moment when she was escorted out of a club as a 16-year-old after feeling 'abnormally drunk':

“The next thing I remembered was waking up. lying in the back of a cab and seeing the street lights whizzing past me through the windows. I felt completely out of it, and I blacked out again.”

After regaining consciousness, Tulisa then found herself having non-consensual sex with a ‘friend’ before passing out again:

“I couldn't even move, let alone get up or speak, and once again I just blacked out. When I finally woke up in the morning I found myself in a strange house.”

Following the incident, Tulisa says that she felt too embarrassed and ashamed to tell anyone what happened, although admitted that she would handle things differently now she’s older:

“I went into the bathroom and burst into tears. Then I pulled myself together, got dressed, and left without saying another word, crying all the way home.”

 

 

 

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