Tulisa Contostavlos told her I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! campmates that her beingness “fell apart” aft she was arrested connected suspicion of supplying people A drugs successful 2013.
The charges against the N-Dubz prima were aboriginal dismissed aft prosecution witnesser “fake sheikh” writer Mazher Mahmood was recovered blameworthy of tampering with evidence, during her 2014 trial.
“2013 was the twelvemonth I was acceptable up by a British newspaper, for interest successful the selling of people A drugs,” she told chap campmate Oti Mabuse.
Former N-Dubz vocalist Tulisa Contostavlos gives a connection extracurricular Southwark Crown Court aft her proceedings implicit drugs allegations collapsed (Justin Tallis/PA)
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“The guy’s sanction was Mahmood and basically, I was approached by a large movie institution and they sent maine a tweet oregon a DM from their authoritative relationship to audition maine for a movie role…
“I’d dabbled successful acting, truthful this accidental for maine was huge.”
Contostavlos said the relation was offering £3.5 cardinal and she was flown retired for meetings with producers successful Las Vegas with “first people flights, limousines (and) 5 prima hotels”.
“I recovered retired it was a lie,” she told erstwhile Strictly Come Dancing prima Mabuse.
“So I was told, arsenic I wasn’t an actress, I was little apt to get the relation and the lone crushed I would get it is if I was the miss successful the role, and the miss successful the relation was this atrocious miss from London who was perpetually up to naughtiness, rolling with gangs, up to each kinds of naughty stuff.”
Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood, who was jailed for tampering with grounds successful the collapsed drugs proceedings of popular prima Tulisa Contostavlos (Metropolitan Police/PA)
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Contostavlos said “they had maine dangling connected the extremity of a string”, claiming each clip she met with the squad they’d archer her “we request immoderate drugs”.
“After months and months, yet they got a fig and it was of idiosyncratic that wasn’t adjacent a cause dealer, it was an aspiring movie shaper and I wanted to marque a hook up arsenic good for that person, but I didn’t cognize anyone that could bash that,” she said.
“The agelong communicative abbreviated is they ended up ordering £800 worthy of cocaine from the fig that I had fixed them.
“Then earlier I knew it, I was being arrested successful the interest of the selling of Class A drugs and I was facing 4 years successful prison.”
Contostavlos revealed she mislaid “all my endorsements” implicit the incident.
“My beingness fell apart,” she said.
The 36-year-old continued: “When it came to the trial, I’d had a speech with 1 of their drivers, I was being recorded but I didn’t know, I was saying however anti-drugs I am, truthful they were precise alert of my feelings towards drugs.”
Contostavlos said the operator initially gave a connection confirming she was anti-drugs, nevertheless she claimed that arsenic the proceedings loomed the writer forced him to alteration his statement.
In 2016, Mr Mahmood was jailed for 15 months tampering with grounds successful the collapsed drugs proceedings of popular prima Contostavlos pursuing a two-week proceedings astatine the Old Bailey.
Wednesday’s occurrence besides saw podcaster GK Barry and Dean McCullough instrumentality connected the bushtucker trial, Drown In The Dumps.
The brace failed to unlock immoderate stars and went backmost to campy empty-handed.
The extremity of the occurrence saw Love Island prima Maura Higgins and writer-turned-broadcaster Reverend Richard Coles revealed arsenic precocious entries into camp.
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! continues connected ITV1 and ITVX.