The singer tells the BBC she wants to build better support for contestants on reality TV shows.
By Chi Chi Izundu, Rob Brown, Jo Adnitt & Sarah BellFormer X Factor contestant Lucy Spraggan has told BBC News that taking part in the show in 2012 felt like being in "an abusive relationship".
"From the very first stage that message was reiterated and reiterated and reiterated to the point where that's all you believe - [that] 'this is the biggest opportunity of my life,'" she says. It happened at a hotel where she and her fellow contestant - the broadcaster Rylan Clark - had been moved to, away from the others.
She knows she was not conscious - because she had been drinking alcohol at the party - when she was escorted back to the hotel by a member of the production team. "It kind of shows you what kind of world you are in, in what kind of mindset you are in, to not be able to really measure what has happened, and what you should do now.""I remember sort of having to peel myself away from jumping off the balcony. Like having to consciously do that."She decided to leave the show after week three of the competition. But she wasn't voted out by the public or the show's judges - she realised that mentally she couldn't continue.
The star is now calling for all production and broadcast companies to better consider employees' and participants' mental health - by setting aside a portion of their budgets to invest in mental wellbeing services."We need these shows, because there's a thriving community of talented people who just don't have the funds and the opportunity to get there."
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