Celebrity SAS star Lucy Spraggan breaks down in floods of tears after revealing horrifying rape ordeal during her time on the X Factor

Daily Mail​

4 days ago

Lucy Spraggan broke down in tears as she courageously shared the harrowing story of her rape during a deeply emotional moment on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.
The singer-songwriter, 34, is currently battling her way through the intense military-style challenges, alongside ten other famous faces.
During Monday night's episode, she was called in for a conversation with the staff, where she revealed the traumatic event that had haunted her for years.
At just 21, while competing on ITV 's The X Factor in 2012, Lucy was raped by a hotel porter after a night out celebrating fellow contestant Rylan Clark 's 25th birthday.
The attacker gained access to her hotel room using a traceable key card while Lucy was passed out from a night of heavy drinking.
Opening up about what she hoped to find from her Celebrity SAS journey, Lucy tearfully said: 'Where I, where I... I've been broken so many times.'
She described The X Factor as 'everything I'd ever wished for' before recalling the night that shattered her world.
'I was wasted, I was paralytic,' she said. 'The hotel porter said, "Oh I'll give her a hand," and I was paralytic. I passed out on the bed, so I can only tell you this stuff because of the information that I have been told.'
She added, fighting to hold back tears, 'When that hotel porter came up to my room to do what not-nice people do to vulnerable women.'
Lucy admitted the terrifying aftermath: 'I woke up and I didn't really know what… well, I knew what had happened but I didn't know what to do.'
Thanks to the key card evidence, the hotel porter was caught and arrested.
Lucy left The X Factor soon after, although viewers remained unaware of the true ordeal she endured.
At the time when she quite the show, it was said it was down to illness.
'It was tough, hard,' Lucy said with tears flowing. 'It was seven years of, like, trying to destroy myself. The amount of times I was blackout drunk, again, after that.
Opening up about what happened Lucy revealed that afterwards, she drank as if 'trying to destroy' herself and candidly confessed she knew she had to stop or she would die
'I know that's what that was, I was just trying to shut everything out, but it felt like everything was snatched away from me in a really brutal way.'
She confessed her inner turmoil: 'And I was like, "I haven't done anything wrong." And so, I was angry about that, I was angry that other people had music careers that were better than mine. Or sad that I felt like I'd missed the boat.
'It all just got so heavy. I realised, I was like, "If I carry on doing this, I'm just going to die."'
Carl 'Foxy' Fox then reassured her saying: 'We all genuinely believe that you'll get the most out of this course and getting to the end, regardless of how dark it gets.'
Thankfully, Lucy has since found strength and happiness and tied the knot with her photographer wife Emilia Smith last June.
The couple, who have been friends for 10 years, got engaged last March, just two months after telling the world they had unexpectedly fallen for one another.
Simon Cowell walked her down the aisle after the pair patched up their relationship following her time on X Factor in 2012.
Lucy explained that Simon was the first to apologise, previously admitting his call 'just made things so much better for me.'
The star revealed she had popped the question to Emilia back in March after their friendship blossomed into a romance despite meeting over a decade ago in 2013.
Speaking on the My Dirty Laundry podcast Lucy opened up about her relationship as she explained: 'It's been a surprise for both of us really because we've been friends for 10 years and it wasn't until last year, late last year that we both sort of turned to each other and we're like wait...'
'We've been really, really good friends. We've known each other for more than a decade, and we've been really good friends for like four or five years.
'[The realisation for us happened] at exactly at the same time without saying anything to each other. She had a dream about me and she woke up and she's like, 'Oh, my God, I think I feel this way about Lucy'.
'And she sent me a text saying she was coming down to my show and I got butterflies and I was left thinking, 'What was that?' And that was like two days after her dream.