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Rebecca Ferguson Breaks Silence On Industry Malpractice And Bullying

Rebecca Ferguson has spoken out about being bullied as a recording artist during her career, opening up about the industry malpractice she says she has suffered. 

In a Twitlonger post titled Statement of Truth uploaded yesterday (May 10), Ferguson tweeted: “Only very young and having dreamt of this my whole life I signed without any ‘independent’ legal advice feeling betrayed by my advisors! I wasn’t even given a moment to read through the document correctly before signing. 

“I was given an accountant, and I was also given my solicitor who was not at all independent, and they all worked together as one. 

“When I chose to close that particular chapter in my life I was pursued, I spent hundreds of thousands of pounds fighting what to me was a complete injustice. 

“Only to find out the lawyers I had instructed had not been acting to my best interests at all and the legal ombudsman investigated this and found that my fears were justified and ordered the firm to return all of the money that they had taken from me. 

“The abuse turned much worse.

“Some of my music was blocked internationally so that nobody could play or buy my albums.

“The oppression had reached it’s absolute worst when I was called and told I had to do something that compromised my integrity I was requested to do a gig and told, ‘they want you because you’re a black face. you need to do it.’”

In yesterday's Twitlonger, Ferguson also revealed about being targeted by a con artist and her husband who were pretending to take care of her business affairs. 

She wrote: “I was targeted by a woman and her husband, they told me that I was the victim of systematic bullying! And manipulation, and that this was being done to me to teach me a lesson for questioning my oppressor's conduct, and that I should fight what was happening to me she told me I needed to build up a file of all of the things that were happening to me.

“When her true intentions where realised she went on to destroy all of my files and company documents which affected me greatly as how could I function and submit anything with no files, she also sent me disturbing letters, and at that time had placed her name so that she would be able to collect my children from school.”

In June 2015, a woman from Southport and her husband were sentenced to 16 months in prison for stealing £43,000 from Ferguson, as reported by the Liverpool Echo.

Ferguson first came to prominence in 2010 on the U.K. series of The X Factor, which saw fellow singer Matt Cardle win. With the powerful push of the reality show's wheel behind her, the singer's debut solo album Heaven peaked at No. 3 in the U.K. Official Charts. 

Ferguson released her fourth album Superwoman in 2016 via Syco and Sony Music Entertainment. 

Listen/stream Rebecca Ferguson here.

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