Tulisa 'terrified' as she feared another drugs sting by 'fake princesses' in Dubai

N-Dubz star and former I'm A Celeb campmate Tulisa says two "fake princesses" tried to befriend her in Dubai, but she was scared they were trying to get her arrested for drugs

Tulisa is still scarred by her drug arrest.

The 36-year-old N-Dubz singer was arrested in 2013 on suspicion of supplying class A drugs - in court she denied being involved with the supply of £800 worth of cocaine. However, it later emerged that she had been set up and wrongly accused of being a drug dealer.

Journalist Mazher Mahmood - also known as The Sun's Fake Sheik - had tried a sting operation to catch the singer taking drugs. Mahmood and an assistant later tried to entrap Tulisa to supply class A drugs, but the case collapsed the following summer as the judge determined Mahmood had lied to the court.

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In a separate trial, Mahmood was sentenced to 15 months for tampering with evidence. Speaking after the charges against her were dropped, Tulisa - who always protested her innocence - said: "Let me be perfectly clear.

I'm A Celeb star Tulisa was "terrified" of another drug sting(Image: INSTAGRAM)

"I have never dealt drugs and I have never been involved in taking or dealing cocaine. This whole case was a horrific and disgusting entrapment by Mazher Mahmood."

And Tulisa has now admitted she is still "terrified" of another drug sting, after being hit with hundreds of thousands of pounds in legal costs and losing her endorsements at the time of the first. She said she lost about £2m and a book deal for a novel she had been writing.

The singer searched her suitcase in Dubai out of fear someone had slipped drugs inside of it(Image: Getty Images)

The singer, who has just emerged from the jungle after appearing on I'm A Celebrity, said she panicked during her trip to Dubai as she worried she was getting set up again. She checked the lining of her suitcase before flying home out of fear fake princesses had slipped drugs into her luggage.

Two fake princesses had tried to befriend her, posing as "massive Tulisa fans". She told The Guardian they wanted "to party with me. They already know I don’t do drugs from the sting.

Tulisa arriving outside court, during a separate case in 2016(Image: PA)

"So in my mind, I’m thinking: ‘Are you going to slip something in my bag, send me to prison for life?’ I was checking the lining of my suitcase before flying home, terrified. It has taken me years to admit the trust issues this all gave me."

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