It hit me like a train. I couldn’t stop crying... I felt unbearably low and empty - Tulisa on sex tape ordeal

I've been to hell and back ... Tulisa felt crushed and humiliated

And, in the second exclusive extract from her autobiography, The X Factor judge tells how she was haunted by fears she would be seen as “some kind of slapper” by the nation.

Honest ... Tulisa's book

Tulisa, 24, was out driving when she learned the tape was online. She says:

It was Saturday 17 March, 2012, when my world crashed down around me.

I was in the car when I got a message on my BlackBerry. I handed the phone to my friend and PA Gareth to see who it was from. The look of horror on his face told me it wasn’t good.

He said, ‘It’s out, T. It’s out!’ It was the news I had dreaded since taking a call from my publicist the previous August. He said, ‘The Sun says they have seen a sex tape of you’.