Tulisa reveals tough years in new memoir

Tulisa Contostavlos reveals personal battles from addiction to a sex tape scandal in her memoir.

Tulisa Details Tough Years and a Public Sex Tape Scandal in New Memoir

Tulisa Contostavlos details a year from hell in her memoir Judgement: Love, Trials and Tribulations. The book, published by Blink Publishing, describes a period when she faced a drug trial, two suicide attempts and a storm of media attention following a sex tape scandal. She writes about the moment she learned she would be charged in connection with the supply of Class A drugs and how a former friend called an ambulance after finding her in her bathroom surrounded by sleeping-pill packets. The memoir also revisits the involvement of Mazher Mahmood, known as the Fake Sheikh, in a sting that affected her career, and notes that revenge porn was not illegal at the time. She says she kept a journal during the court case as her life unravelled, and she shows how she eventually sought safety and began to rebuild after the crisis.

She says she found peace and faith last year and explains the ways she has tried to regain control of her life and career as she moves forward from the hardest chapter.

The memoir arrives at a moment when audiences are reevaluating how fame and media shape personal trauma. Tulisa puts a human face to struggles that are all too common in show business, including depression and addiction. By detailing both the pain and her path to recovery, she challenges the idea that celebrities should weather scandal in silence. Yet publishing such intimate history raises questions about consent, retraumatization, and how much the public should know. The story also revisits the 2014 drug sting and the media environment that amplified it, prompting a wider look at journalistic ethics and accountability.

The book adds to the ongoing conversation about privacy and resilience in the age of relentless online scrutiny, offering a case study in how one star tries to reclaim agency after public censure.

Highlights

The memoir invites readers to weigh personal healing against the glare of public life.