SEX ASSAULT HELL
Paloma Faith reveals how she was given date rape drug twice and had to fight off an attacker in a phone box
Singer Paloma opens up on the terrifying experience in her book MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery
PALOMA FAITH has told of her shocking sex assault hell, revealing she repeatedly “escaped rape”.
The singer also confessed to being “in situations where I was date rape drugged” and admitted she once had to fight off a sex attacker in a phone box.
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She said: “I was kerb crawled by older men, I was groped and escaped rape a few times.”
Opening up the terrifying experience in her book MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery the Only Love Can Hurt Like This hitmaker wrote: “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.
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“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.”
Mum-of-two Paloma, who split from hubby Leyman Lahcine in 2022, said: “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.”
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