Singer Lucy Spraggan confesses to being raped while participating in X Factor

A former British X Factor contestant, Lucy Spraggan, has revealed that was raped by a hotel porter during the production period of the popular television program of the channel ITV in 2012. The artist, who was 20 years old at the time, recounts in a memoir that the attack occurred one night when she was celebrating the birthday of her partner Rylan Clark at a club in the London neighborhood of Mayfair, where they attended members of the X Factor production team.

According to the singer, who is now 31 years old, in statements to the newspaper Guardianshe was disappointed in how the incident was handled by the ITV: “It was not appropriate for anyone, including the contestants, to be drunk. How can (the channel) fulfill its duty of care when alcohol is involved?”

The artist, who details the event in the book: ‘Process: Finding My Way Through’, recalls that she became unconscious and was escorted back to the hotel by a member of the production team so whate, once at the hotel, a porter offered to help him back to his room. Spraggan says that that doorman later used an “electronic key” to enter her room and assault her.
“I woke up the next day with this feeling of panic. I don’t think I’ve ever felt this level of confusion since.”

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“I knew I had been raped, but I couldn’t process it. So I put my clothes on and just kept going on autopilot”he added. Although the production team called the police and an arrest was made, Spraggan believes that in ITV they were not “prepared” to deal with what happened.

Although it was provided financial and medical support After what happened, the singer regrets, however, that she was not given any other help after her attacker was prosecuted.

“No one contacted me again to ask if I was okay. No one called or emailed me when the trial was over and he (the rapist) was prosecuted. No one offered me rehabilitation or mental health treatment. I was left alone,” she laments.

Spraggan left the contestwhich James Arthur won that year, during live shows, claiming illness, although he now admits that the side effect of a drug that was administered to him to prevent AIDS it made her feel too sick in the days after the rape.

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The singer says that although she wanted to tell the real reason for her departure from Factor X in public at the time, she was warned that this could harm the future of her career.
Spraggan, he points out to several local media, has decided to speak now about what happened since in order to be able to “move on”, he needed to “tell the truth”.

For its part, a statement issued by the channel ITV, notes that the network feels “the deepest sympathy for Lucy and all she has gone through as a result of this horrific event.” “We commend her resilience and bravery,” she adds.