'I had a nation hate me on X Factor, now nothing has been done after Liam Payne's death'

Katie Waissel says that 'nothing has been done' to support artists successful the amusement manufacture - and is calling for much attraction and enactment for artists aft the passing of Liam Payne

Former X Factor sensation Katie Waissel is taking a bold basal to heighten information successful the amusement sector, lamenting that "nothing has been done" following the decease of Liam Payne.

Battling trolls and decease threats during her stint connected the amusement alongside One Direction, 38-year-old Katie speaks candidly astir her hardships wrong the euphony realm. Determined to marque a difference, she's equipped herself legally to combat for change. Post the caller nonaccomplishment of her friend, Liam Payne, Katie is much driven than ever to make a safer situation for originative talents.

She is calling for improved attraction and enactment mechanisms wrong the manufacture to shield young artists from exploitation and abuse. Undertaking a ngo to physique the Overseeing the Welfare, Human Rights, and Liberty (O. W. H. L), an exclusive rank web championing creatives, Katie aims to stitchery £2k for important verification technology, ensuring the level remains a sanctuary for artists.

The Watford-based mum-of-one reflected connected her experiences: "I erstwhile had an full federation hatred maine for nary reason." Mournfully, she added: "The precise tragic concern of losing Liam Payne - I'm heartbroken for his family." She continued to stress the industry's inertia with poignant words: "We mislaid Caroline Flack tragically. Still thing was done."

And, marking a telephone to enactment aft losing Liam again highlights the deficiency of response: "We've been calling retired the manufacture aft losing Liam. Still thing is done." Katie, who became celebrated aft her stint connected an ITV amusement astatine conscionable 24 successful 2010, was harshly criticised successful the property and branded a "drama queen."

She opened up astir the aftermath, revealing: "I had decease threats. I had acerb onslaught threats. I couldn't recognize wherefore this was each happening." After facing pugnacious times successful the euphony industry, which she described arsenic "male-dominated" Katie felt often powerless successful situations wherever she expected support. Her challenging travel inspired her to survey instrumentality during the pandemic, starring to establishing O. W. H. L successful June 2023.

This caller task includes a rigorous verification process and offers creatives a unsocial QR codification for "check-ins" astatine enactment locations, enhancing information with a panic fastener diagnostic to alert exigency contacts if necessary. Katie expressed the platform's purpose is to service arsenic "gatekeepers" to empower creatives, saying: "I built it and designed it connected what I wished I had."

"You ne'er cognize who you are walking into a country with." With an urgent request to rise funds for exertion integration earlier launching, Katie remains driven by change, particularly arsenic a azygous mum to her six twelvemonth aged lad who has a emotion for music: "He loves music. I deliberation I privation him to person that magical feeling I erstwhile had successful euphony that got stripped away. It was similar Ursula successful the Little Mermaid."

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