X FACTOR star Katie Waissel claims she was sexually assaulted by one of Simon Cowell’s team at a luxury hotel. Katie, 35, said the terrifying ordeal happened when she met the employee to talk about recording work.
She said: “I can still smell him. I was paralysed with shock. All I could think was, ‘How am I going to leave this room?’ “I was a victim but I wouldn’t allow myself to recognise just how terrible it had been.
I’ve never spoken before as I thought I’d be blacklisted and never work again. “I was vulnerable but times have changed and I now feel bold enough to speak out.” Katie said the incident happened in the US some years after she reached the semi-final of X Factor in 2010.
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