Tulisa Contostavlos has opened up on the terrifying experience of being sexually assaulted after someone she thought was a friend tampered with her drink.
The 36-year-old N-Dubz star talked candidly about her terrifying experience on Paul C. Brunson’s We Need To Talk podcast.
The assault happened when she was just 16 and was out on a night out with friends.
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Before opening up about the specifics of the events leading up to her attack, Tulisa courageously told Paul about how, at the time, she pleaded with her friend not to drug her after noticing something “fizzing” in his drink.
She told Paul: “I was out with a group of boys from my area who I’d known for years, was friends with, and I remember seeing one of them, they had something in their drink, and it was fizzing, and I instantly thought, ‘oh God.'”
“They’re taking drugs. What are you putting in there? And I looked to him, and I was like, ‘please, please, please don’t put anything in my drink.'”

The singer then revealed how her “sensitive” reaction to drugs caused her to worry when she was drugged, saying: “I was like, I’m super sensitive, because at the time I’d started having like, fits off the back of just weed.”
“So I was like, ‘I can’t take any drug. Like, please, please don’t put any drugs in my drink’. Like, and he was like, ‘no, no, I’d never do that.'”
Tulisa continued by describing how she blacked out before being attacked but remembered seeing “flashes of light” as she was being driven away in a car’s backseat.

She recalled: “I remembered feeling like, what is going on? And then next thing, you know, I just remember flashes of being in a car and just seeing the lights, the street lights.”
“So I must have been lying back, and I just remember open my eyes for a second, seeing street lights, street lights, street lights, and then, obviously, waking up in a room, and then, yeah, the rest is history.”
Tulisa added that the mother of her attacker, who was unaware that her son had sexually attacked her, made her tea the following morning.

The singer added that she didn’t confirm the assault at the time, but Paul then asked if she would have reported it if she could go back in time.
Tulisa acknowledged that she “wouldn’t have been able to report him” because she would have probably gotten revenge and “attacked him.”
She shared: “I think I probably would have attacked him, so I wouldn’t have been able to report it is the truth. Probably would have punished the crap out of him and not wanting to report it, because I would have got in trouble.”

During the conversation, Tulisa also insisted that she wouldn’t have changed a thing and blamed her attacker alone.
The I’m A Celebrity star told Paul: “To this day, I’m not someone when I feel hurt or backed in a corner, goes to self-blame. I blamed him through and through. Didn’t look at one bit of my action and think what could I have done differently? That is all him.”
Here are some helpful links for support and advice:
Drink spiking: Signs your drink may have been tampered with
HSE: https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/drink-spiking-date-rape-drugs/
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre: https://www.drcc.ie/