The X Factor judge told an interviewer: “I felt like I was sexy, I felt like I had a form of respect, I felt like he listened to me.”
A 2013 interview with X Factor judge Rita Ora, in which she says that she was groomed by a 26-year-old man when she was 14, has recently received widespread media coverage after quotes from it were pulled for an unauthorised biography.
You can hear her comments beginning at 10:30 in the above video.
Ora says: "I can't begin to tell you how confident I felt when a man was interested in me.
"I felt like I was sexy. I felt like I had a form of respect, I felt like he listened to me. Now I know he listened to me because he obviously wanted to have sex. I felt good that men fancied me. So I would wear low tops, I would put red lipstick on, I would make my hair blonder... my mum would just completely be like, 'What are you doing?'"
She says her mother didn't know that she was "seeing men". Then she explains she was "in a relationship" with a man who was "about 26", when she was 14. "I was very new to the whole world of a man and a female," she says.
She says it's "empowering" to be attractive to men, "but it was very different when I was 14".
Host Amanda de Cadenet says: "You know it's called child abuse now."
Ora then sighs and replies: "It is child abuse really, isn't it?... I mean I don't want to say that I suffered it because I wanted it. I don't want to say that I was forced to do it, I don't want to say that I was abused as a kid, but I was definitely more mature than I should have been at the age of 14."
De Cadenet says that she too was more "emotionally mature" than she should have been, but says that in hindsight "my emotional capacity was not able to understand and to process".
"Right," replies Ora.
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