In 2012, Lucy Spraggan was a 20-year-old breakout star on the British version of “The X Factor”. Then, out of nowhere, she was gone.
For years and years, people wondered why a star contestant on a show that’s produced hitmakers — like One Direction — would vanish without so much as an explanation.
Now, for the first time, Spraggan’s revealing the reason why she dropped out of the singing competition, telling The Guardian that she was raped by a hotel employee after a night out celebrating a friend and fellow contestant’s 25th birthday.
Spraggan, 31, said she passed out drunk at the open-bar shindig that was also attended by “X Factor” crew members, one of whom escorted Spraggan back to the hotel.
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