Paloma Faith has bravely opened up about a terrifying incident where she had to hit a man with a suitcase to prevent him from assaulting her. The 42 year old singer, who was just starting out in her career and performing small gigs at the time, shared that she was trying to call her mum from a phone box when a man forced himself into the booth with her.
In her new book, 'MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F******', she recalls: "One day, in my early twenties, I was coming back late at night from a cabaret job I was doing.
"I went into a phone box, very retro, to call my mother, who was always worrying about my safety, and a man kicked the door of the phone box in so I would be trapped and tried to get in it with me. He was gripping my chest and groin and telling me to shhh but luckily I had my wits about me, as well as a small wheelie suitcase. I picked it up and smashed him round the head with it and ran to a local 24/7 shop where I knew the staff, who helped me."
The New York hitmaker also revealed that she later found herself in two more potentially dangerous situations, and she's still uncertain about what exactly happened during one of them. She wrote: "Later in life, I was twice in situations where I was date rape drugged luckily they didn't manage to follow through with it.
"On one occasion because the people I was with were looking out for me and the other . . . I still to this day am not sure what happened.
"I woke up naked in someone's bed though. I don't know what they did with my body. Dark times."
The singer recently admitted she ‘still loves’ her ex-husband of five years as she confessed she will be 'heartbroken forever' over their split.
The 42-year-old separated from her ex-husband, French artist Leyman Lahcine, in 2022 after nearly ten years together.
