N-DUBZ’S TULISA TRIED TO KILL HERSELF
N-DUBZ star TULA ‘TULISA’ CONTOSTAVLOS was so depressed as a teenager, sh e regularly self-harmed - and twice tried to kill herself.
The British frontwoman of the hip-hop act endured a troubled childhood after falling in with a bad crowd, before starting a relationship with an abusive older man.
When the romance ended Contostavlos developed anorexia and even tried t o end her own life as her moods sank so low.
The singer opens up about the traumas in new book N-Dubz: Against All O dds, stating, "I had my first proper boyfriend as a teenager. We were sex ually active and I was staying over at his house. But it was a bad relati onship. I had lied about my age and he was older than me. He was really h andsome and everyone fancied him but he was violent and abusive towards m e.
"It was mad because on the streets I was powerful and tough. But as a f emale in a relationship I was weak as hell. He just broke me down into no thing and made me feel like c**p. He’d tell me I was ugly and lock me in the bathroom while he went out. I don’t blame him - he had a very tough u pbringing - but eventually he left me for another girl.
"I was so devastated that I stopped eating and dropped a stone and a ha lf, down to seven stone. That’s when my self-harming got really bad and I even took it further twice by trying to kill myself. My mum had loads of pills in her cupboard so I went in there and grabbed a bottle of whateve r I could see. I ended up necking a load then becoming really sick, throw ing up.
"Another time I slashed my wrists and they started bleeding really badl y, which panicked me as I realised what I was doing to myself. I remember sitting there holding a towel over it and crying, thinking ‘What am I do ing?’"
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