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Process is a book about the vicious impact of trauma across a lifetime; it is about Lucy's successes and mistakes, her journey towards sobriety, calm and something like peace. Tulisa then said that she wanted to hear one of her tracks so Spraggan decided to sing "Tea and Toast", stating that the song was about a real couple.

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PROCESS looks at the behind the scenes of a reality music show and Lucy’s career in music, but it’s also so much more: it’s her childhood, her experience growing up as Max, the impact her friendships and family had on her life, her trauma (NB: content inc. She started to divulge her deepest, darkest (almost certainly made up) traumatic secrets to me, and then asked me, “What’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to you? When I’m introduced on a podcast or written about in the paper, it’s always, “Lucy Spraggan, who quit TXF due to illness. Going through everything that's ever traumatised you with a fine-tooth comb: it has been horrendous but wonderful, too [. She said she was raped after a night out for fellow contestant and friend Rylan Clark’s 25th birthday.While we believed throughout that we were doing our best to support Lucy in the aftermath of the ordeal, as Lucy thinks we could have done more, we must therefore recognise this. Spraggan is the latest in a string of ex-reality TV stars, including former X Factor singer Rebecca Ferguson, to express concern about the treatment of contestants. In her new memoir, Process: Finding My Way Through, Spraggan details the devastating impact the assault had on the subsequent decade of her life, and how she felt let down by ITV. She added: “As some of the experiences I’m about to share are some of my most vulnerable, I have been so aware that I need to protect my mental health and my head space. I thought about changing it for a while because every time someone asked if that was me, it triggered that reaction.

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The now 31-year-old said the rape happened after a night celebrating fellow contestant Rylan Clark's 25th birthday at the Mayfair nightclub Mahiki, which was attended by the X Factor crew. Spraggan was a contestant on for The X Factor in 2012, and she was the first contestant in the show's history to score a Top 40 single and album before the live shows aired, with her independently released album Top Room at the Zoo. He wanted to know why I had left the show and where I had gone, but I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to pick up. Growing up in a creative household, surrounded by artists, alcohol and raucous parties, by her late teens she had played pubs, clubs and festivals, fallen in love with an older woman on a US road trip, experimented with drink and drugs, and been in and out of police custody. About the single Spraggan explains 'Whenever I'd run out of money or get on the wrong bus, I'd see a lighthouse and things would start to getting better'.I have always supported her wish to tell her story as well as her efforts to bring about positive change. ITV as a commissioning broadcaster is committed to having in place suitable and robust oversight procedures, with a view to ensuring that independent producers employ the correct processes to protect the mental health and welfare of participants.

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You also hear about the trauma and the pain that comes with encountering the evil people in this world, and the evil that seeps through the entertainment industry. The singer said she had wanted to go public at the time, but was warned it might affect her future career. A man in a London bar once shook my hand and blurted out the exact same sentence, waiting for my response as if he’d just asked me if I was having a good night. I have been writing this album for as long as I can remember and I hope people will be able to relate.Spraggan confirmed the second single lifted from the album would be " Last Night (Beer Fear)" was released on 30 September. In the aftermath, she was advised to take medication to prevent HIV infection - but it made her so ill she was forced to leave the X Factor, which was won that year by James Arthur. The police arrested and charged my rapist almost immediately due to the evidence that was available. Then I heard a noise that sounded like a scene from a wildlife documentary: a primal, guttural cry, the kind that a buffalo makes when it watches helplessly from a distance as a lion kills its young. A journalist from Sheffield sat me down in front of a camera in my dressing room before my show for a “relaxed interview” and in the middle of nonchalant questions about what it’s like on the road, and what bands I’m into at the moment, said, “I heard you were raped and that is the reason you left the show.

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After she performed the song she burst into tears when she received a standing ovation from the audience and the judging panel. Spraggan announced a headline European tour to promote her studio album I Hope You Don't Mind Me Writing (2017), starting at The Waterfront, Norwich on 1 March and concluding at the Gruner Salon, Berlin on 28 March 2017. A spokesperson for Fremantle said: “The serious sexual assault suffered by Lucy Spraggan in October 2012 was a truly horrific criminal act for which the perpetrator, who was not connected with the programme, was rightfully prosecuted and imprisoned.

Free studio time free amps and festival slots for Live and Unsigned acts that competed in Camden London Results". I can’t really put into words how amazing this book is, it’s an emotional rollercoaster but allows you to understand the journey of another person and what they have gone through and to make it out the other end as amazing as she has done is truly inspiring. I was only about 1 hour into the audio book before I decided that this is one of my top 3 memoires of all time. Although she wanted to make public the reason for her exit from The X Factor, she said various people told her: “You have your whole career ahead of you and you can’t retract this. A hotel porter offered to help get Spraggan to her room, flipping the security latch on her door to prevent it locking behind them when they left.