But, in a BBC3 documentary set to air tonight, the 26-year-old former X Factor judge reveals that she almost didn’t make it to the end.
Singer Tulisa revealed during the programme that in December 2013, after she found out she would be formally charged for being in concern with the supply of Class A drugs, she attempted suicide.
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She said: “I’d had a drink so everything felt more intensified. I just picked up, like, 11 Co-codamol and just necked them with a bottle of vodka. I don’t even know what I was planning to do.”
Tulisa refused to go to hospital after the deadly cocktail, but thankfully she was OK. She continued: “Luckily I was just drowsy. I woke up the next day just numb.”
After the news broke of the ‘drug deal’ media interest in Tulisa grew higher than ever before and she admitted to feeling unsafe in her £4.5 million Hertfordshire mansion.
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In a webcam recording filmed at the time, she said: “I’m going to sell that house. After everything that’s happened, I don’t feel safe there at all. I don’t even want to drive back there to pick up my stuff because I’m scared someone will follow me.”
The former N-Dubz star said that while the case was going on she cut herself off from a lot of people, but celebrity friends Rochelle and Marvin Humes and One Direction’s Niall Horan helped her through.
“I locked myself off from a lot of the world so there were only a few people who could contact me. Marvin and Rochelle were two people who really had my back throughout – and Niall and Rylan,” she said.
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Now Tulisa is sure that she can get her confidence back and her career kick started.
She told BBC Newsbeat: “I’d lost my confidence and I thought ‘You can’t leave [show business] on a low, this happened to you for a reason.
“I see it as I’m not finished yet.”
Tulisa: The Price of Fame is on BBC3 tonight at 10pm