Tulisa Contostavlos told her I’m A Celebrity...
Get Me Out Of Here! campmates that her life “fell apart” after she was arrested on suspicion of supplying class A drugs in 2013. The charges against the N-Dubz star were later dismissed after prosecution witness “fake sheikh” journalist Mazher Mahmood was found guilty of tampering with evidence, during her 2014 trial. “2013 was the year I was set up by a British newspaper, for concern in the selling of class A drugs,” she told fellow campmate Oti Mabuse.
“The guy’s name was Mahmood and basically, I was approached by a big movie company and they sent me a tweet or a DM from their official account to audition me for a movie role...
“I’d dabbled in acting, so this opportunity for me was huge.” Contostavlos said the role was offering £3.5 million and she was flown out for meetings with producers in Las Vegas with “first class flights, limousines (and) five star hotels”.
“I found out it was a lie,” she told former Strictly Come Dancing star Mabuse. “So I was told, as I wasn’t an actress, I was less likely to get the role and the only reason I would get it is if I was the girl in the role, and the girl in the role was this bad girl from London who was constantly up to naughtiness, rolling with gangs, up to all kinds of naughty stuff.” Contostavlos said “they had me dangling on the end of a string”, claiming every time she met with the team they’d tell her “we need some drugs”.
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