Tulisa has been getting back in the public eye over the past few years, but at the height of her fame in 2013, the I'm a Celebrity star was implicated in a drugs scandal.
The scandal ended up costing her in the fame department, even though the case against the singer was dropped in 2014. Tulisa has always denied the charges against her and has been open about the impact it had on her life.
Here's what happened and what the N-Dubz singer has said about the scandal…
What happened?
In 2013, the Sun on Sunday ran an exclusive story accusing Tulisa of arranging to supply their undercover reporter, Mahzer Mahmood, with a supply of cocaine. The arrangement was allegedly set up in order to help Tulisa secure a movie role.
On 4 June 2013, the singer was arrested on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs, and she was later charged on 9 December. Tulisa denied the charges throughout the whole trial.
© Ben A. PruchnieThe trial sensationally collapsed on 21 July 2014 after judge Alistair McCreath accused Mahzer of lying during evidence, having allegedly pressured a driver to lie about Tulisa's attitudes towards drugs.
In a written statement, he said: "When he [Mr Mahmood] gave evidence last week, he was asked questions on the same topic and gave answers entirely inconsistent with his earlier evidence."
© Alex B. HuckleFollowing the trial, Tulisa told reporters that she had "never" dealt drugs. "Let me be perfectly clear, I have never dealt drugs and I have never been involved in taking or dealing cocaine," she said. "This whole case was a horrific and disgusting entrapment by Mazher Mahmood."
What has Tulisa said?
Tulisa hadn't had an easy year, as alongside the drugs charge, a sex tape of herself and ex-boyfriend, Justin Edwards, was leaked onto the internet.
In an interview, Tulisa described the experiences as a "year from hell". She later told Fearne Cotton on the Happy Places podcast: "There were days where I was on the bathroom floor, crying my eyes out, having nervous breakdowns, thinking of doing the worst things possible."
© Ken McKay/ITV/ShutterstockHowever, she has also called the difficult time a "blessing". She told Fearne: "That year, I call my year of enlightenment. There is nothing like it, you can't buy life experience like that. It was completely unexpected."
She added: "It's very hard to describe the experience and the character traits you could say it has given me. Ultimately, at this point I do see it as a blessing because it was after that year that I began the journey of finding my peace."
© Joe MaherSpeaking to the Mirror before entering the show, Tulisa said: "It's been a journey and there is no choice in coping. You either fight or you fall. And so I've overcome things that I didn't realise I was capable of overcoming. But there's nothing worse in that jungle than what happened [to me] in 2013."
I'm a Celebrity statement
Tulisa was open about everything that happened during her time on I'm a Celebrity, telling fellow contestant Oti Mabuse that 13 had a major meaning for her.
"2013 was the year I was set up by a British newspaper, for concern in the selling of class A drugs," she told the dancer. "The guy's name was Mahmood and basically, I was approached by a big movie company and they sent me a tweet or a DM from their official account to audition me for a movie role."
© ITV/ShutterstockShe continued: "Oh no, I found out it was a lie. So I was told, as I wasn't an actress, I was less likely to get the role and the only reason I would get it is if I was the girl in the role, and the girl in the role was this bad girl from London who was constantly up to naughtiness, rolling with gangs, up to all kinds of naughty stuff.
"After months and months, eventually they got a number and it was of someone that wasn't even a drug dealer, it was an aspiring movie producer and I wanted to make a hook up as well for that person, but I didn't know anyone that could do that.
© ITV/Shutterstock"The long story short is they ended up ordering £800's worth of cocaine from the number that I had given them. Then before I knew it, I was being arrested in the concern of the selling of Class A drugs and I was facing four years in prison. I lost all my endorsements… my life fell apart."
Tulisa also shared how anti-drugs she was, revealing: "When it came to the trial, I'd had a conversation with one of their drivers, I was being recorded but I didn’t know, I was saying how anti-drugs I am, so they were very aware of my feelings towards drugs."
