I'm A Celeb star Tulisa reveals exactly what she said to will.i.am after he stole her hit song

Tulisa sued the Black Eyed Peas prima for stealing her azygous Scream & Shout, which she primitively wrote to beryllium included connected her solo medium The Female Boss successful 2012

I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! prima Tulisa Contostavlos has revealed precisely what she said to will.i.am aft helium stole her deed song.

The erstwhile N-Dubz singer penned the hit, primitively titled I Don't Give A F**k for her debut solo medium The Female Boss, and had planned to merchandise it successful 2012 arsenic a travel up to her song, Young. However, she was approached by the Black Eyed Peas prima who begged her to fto him springiness the way to Britney Spears, but she refused.

Tulisa reflected connected the five-year ineligible conflict successful an interrogation connected Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast, and revealed she ended up with 10 percent of the worldwide publishing rights and income from the song, which was renamed Scream & Shout and released successful November 2012, aft she won the lawsuit. The vocalist said she holds nary grudge against will.i.am, and said she wasn’t “a***d” astir the lengthy ineligible conflict she endured to get her opus back.

“I've seen him retired and conscionable been like, ‘you alright mate?’ I'm not a**ed. I've been paid, my name's connected the record. It is what it is,” she admitted. Tulisa said the ineligible play began erstwhile will.i.am called her and asked her to “give him” her way arsenic helium planned connected utilizing it for Britney Spears and it would beryllium “released astir the world ”. She said no, but aboriginal discovered the opus had been taken from her contempt refusing will.i.am’s request.

“I was conscionable casually sitting astatine location and determination it was connected the telly! Britney's conscionable singing, I'm similar is that my dependable connected the grounds that she's singing over? You cognize erstwhile you perceive this, ‘in the nine each eyes connected us, each eyes connected us’, you can, you tin perceive it. My vocals are connected the record, truthful she's singing connected apical of me. That's wherefore she's got the British accent. I was conscionable similar 'what the hellhole is this?” Tulisa recalled. She past discovered her songwriting recognition had been erased, and the song’s lyrics had been attributed to will.i.am, Jef Martens and Jean Baptiste.

“So yea I started the agelong process of different ineligible lawsuit which you cognize amazingly thankfully turned retired successful my favour,” the erstwhile X Factor justice explained. “Actually present I don't kick astir it due to the fact that royalties are good. volition was initially close erstwhile helium was saying to me, ‘this would beryllium immense for you, you tin marque truthful overmuch wealth retired of it... it tin beryllium fig one... idiosyncratic similar Britney tin bash that.’”

Tulisa said she was “just hard-headed” erstwhile asked by the rapper and euphony shaper to springiness him her track, and wanted to marque the opus her own. “I was similar 'no it's my azygous I don't attraction astir the bigger picture, it's my song, I'm not not giving it to anyone',” she fumed. Looking backmost connected the ineligible drama, she told Fearne she wished will.i.am would person “just enactment my sanction down connected the publishing to marque definite that I was going to get paid either way”.

Despite the lawsuit, she has “no atrocious blood” with the rapper, and was profoundly arrogant of herself for lasting up for her songwriting. At the time, will.i.am admitted determination was a fallout implicit the track, and claimed: “Tulisa wrote that opus earlier I did – this is the truth. But the producers of the beat… didn't privation her to person it.”

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