Reality star Tulisa Contostavlos has spoken about her life being destroyed after being targeted by the Sun on Sunday’s notorious Fake Sheikh.

The former X Factor judge told how she faced prison after a sophisticated sting by disgraced undercover journalist Mazher Mahmood.

The revelations emerged on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Here, in which Tulisa is a contestant.

She said that the number 13 was special to her as “a lot of things happen to me, either on the 13th or the year 2013….2013 was the year I was set up by a British newspaper, for concern in the selling of class A drugs.

“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.”

Mahmood’s team offered her an inducement of £3.5m for the role.

“I was having meetings with these producers, they flew me out to Las Vegas, first class flights, limousines, five-star hotels,” Tulisa added.

Keen to impress, she was lured into a string of glamorous meetings, “talking absolute crazy nonsense”.

However, on each occasion the fake movie makers asked: “We need some drugs”.

Under pressure, the singer provided “a hook up” with an aspiring movie producer, who was also her friend.

She said, “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.”

Ex-News of the World Investigations Editor Mazher Mahmood  presented the story as an “expose” of Tulisa for arranging the drug deal.

But the case fell apart in court following the help of a driver she had shared her anti-drugs feelings with, and Mahmood was charged with perverting the course of justice.

“My life fell apart,” she said, as she revealed she lost “all my endorsements” over the incident.

“He was facing the same amount of time that I was facing and he ended up going to prison and serving 18 months.”

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