Inside I’m A Celeb star Tulisa’s turbulent relationship with her mum Anne Byrne after tough unbringing

TULISA Contostavlos has enactment herself beforehand and centre, whenever immoderate of her I'm a Celeb campmates person required a enarthrosis to outcry on, oregon adjacent a hug.

And it seems the caring and compassionate broadside to her quality has been evident for galore years, since becoming mum Anne Byrne's superior carer astatine the tender property of 11.

Anne was diagnosed with schizoaffective upset successful 2007, a operation of bipolar and schizophrenia, which was covered successful 2010 BBC documentary, Tulisa: My Mum and Me.

In her 2012 autobiography Honest, Tulisa, who utilized to unrecorded with chap vocalist Anne, successful a one-bedroom level connected a assembly property successful northbound London, wrote: "Mum was obsessive astir locking our beforehand door, and it was ever locked from the wrong with the keys inactive hanging successful the door. 

"One greeting I noticed that though the cardinal was successful the lock, it hadn't been turned, and the doorway was really unlocked. 

"Knowing that my mum would freak retired and consciousness susceptible if she spotted it, I turned the cardinal and locked it myself.

"Within seconds my mum, proceeding the jangle of the keys, came tearing retired into the hall, screaming astatine maine hysterically.

"I conjecture she thought I was trying to unfastened the doorway and panicked, but went wholly disconnected the heavy end, accusing maine of wanting to marque her ill, oregon adjacent termination her, and it went connected and on. 

"Incidents similar this were a regular occurrence successful our house, on with temper tantrums and temper swings."

Speaking successful the BBC doc, Tulisa suggested the pressures of looking aft her mum led to her joining a pack and turning to portion and drugs.

Things adjacent got truthful connected apical of her that Tulisa tried to instrumentality her ain beingness connected much than 1 occasion.

It was erstwhile her mum's medicine nary longer seemed to beryllium moving that the N-Dubz singer truly started to struggle.

She said: "One of the worst things astir dealing with my mum was however helpless and unsocial I felt astatine specified a susceptible age.

"The doctors didn't look to beryllium capable to stabilise my mother's moods and I felt myself being dragged further and further down by the situation I was forced to unrecorded in."

And Tulisa said it was lone her aspirations of becoming a popular prima that kept her going astatine that time.

"Music and my imagination of becoming a occurrence was each that kept maine going done those precise acheronian times."

When her begetter Plato, a erstwhile keyboard subordinate with the set Mungo Jerry, near home, that's erstwhile Tulisa started staying astatine her aunt's location much often.

And it was determination that she realised she'd alternatively beryllium surviving successful a much unchangeable environment.

She said: "My dada near location and it triggered 1 of her episodes.

"One infinitesimal she'd look each mournful arsenic if idiosyncratic had died, the adjacent she'd beryllium aggravated and aggressive, smashing cupboards and shouting.

"Inevitably, she went into infirmary again and I stayed with my mum's older sister, Louise.

"She had children of her ain and it was felt she was much capable to look aft a young girl.

"I utilized to dread my mum getting amended and coming location due to the fact that it would mean I'd person to permission my aunt's location wherever I felt harmless and blessed and normal."

Since Anne's diagnosis her behaviour has thankfully stabilised, but Tulisa is inactive acrophobic she mightiness besides beryllium diagnosed with the aforesaid information 1 day.

She said: "Medical experts don't look to cognize for definite whether this upset is hereditary.

"My ain feeling is that everyone has the quality to go depressed oregon spell to a acheronian place, and whether that could trigger the benignant of behaviour and unwellness my mum suffers, who knows?"