N-Dubz’ Tulisa says her “life fell apart” after fake sheikh set up drugs bust

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Tulisa has said her “life fell apart” after a fake sheikh set up a drugs bust.The N-Dubz star recounted the infamous 2013 incident on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here, where Tulisa was initially arrested on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs, of which she later denied.

Her charges were eventually dismissed, whilst “fake sheikh” and former undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood was charged with misleading the court in 2015.Speaking to former Strictly Come Dancing star and fellow comeptitor Oti Mabuse, Tulisa recalled: “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.”However, Tulisa said it was all a “lie”, and that the fictional film company “had me dangling on the end of a string”.

She went on to allege that every time she would meet with the team, they would claim “we need some drugs”.“After months and months, eventually they got a number and it was of someone that wasn’t even a drug dealer, it was an aspiring movie producer and I wanted to make a hook up as well for that person, but I didn’t know anyone that could do that,” she continued.“The long story short is they ended up ordering £800 worth of cocaine from the number that I had given them.

Then before I knew it, I was being arrested in the concern of the selling of Class A drugs and I was facing four years in prison.”After her arrest, Tulisa revealed she lost “all my endorsements” over the incident and “my life fell apart”.However, Tulisa went on to claim that Mahmood had tampered with evidence, leading to her charges being dropped and his eventual arrest.“When it came to the.