Disgraced X-Factor singer Kayleigh Taylor has admitted she ‘chose cocaine over her kids’ as her £15,000 drug debt has been revealed.
The 28-year-old mother, from Liverpool, wowed Simon Cowell and the judges last week with an emotional rendition of My Immortal by US rock band Evanescence.
But it was later revealed that she verbally attacked an old friend by calling her a ‘p***’ and a ‘s***’ in Facebook messages from 2010.
Disgraced X-Factor singer Kayleigh Taylor has admitted she ‘chose cocaine over her kids’ as her £15,000 drug debt has been revealed
The 28-year-old mother, from Liverpool, wowed Simon Cowell and the judges last week with an emotional rendition of My Immortal by US rock band Evanescence
A source told MailOnline that Ms Taylor left the show before the boot camp stage.
And now the reality show hopeful has disclosed how her cocaine habit left her unable to take her children to school after a weekend of drug taking and drinking wine and vodka, according to the Mirror.
Ms Taylor also admitted she took out up to £15,000 in payday loans to fund her drug-fuelled lifestyle.
She said: ‘I owe payday loan companies because I tried to get loans to fund my habit. I’m in £15,000 of debt.
Now the reality show hopeful has disclosed how her cocaine habit left her unable to take her children to school after a weekend of drug taking and drinking wine and vodka
It was earlier revealed she verbally attacked an old friend by calling her a ‘p***’ and a ‘s***’ in the messages from 2010
‘I went on X Factor to better myself. I was battling my addiction on X Factor and I’m still battling it now. I’ve not used (drugs) now for around two months.’
After Ms Taylor’s racist Facebook messages were unearthed this week, she said on social media: ‘So apparently am in all the newspapers tomorrow cause I called someone a p*** in 2010 I admit it was wrong but the girl who I called it to bullied me None stop in school and am far from a racist my daughters dad is back [sic] god people these days.’
A statement released on behalf of Kayleigh at the time said: ‘This is disgusting language which there is no excuse for. I shouldn’t have used it and I wholeheartedly apologise for using it.
Ms Taylor posted on social media about the controversy: ‘So apparently am in all the newspapers tomorrow cause I called someone a p*** in 2010’
‘This argument took place seven years ago. I have admitted I have made mistakes in the past – and a lot of them – and I am now trying to better my life and be a better person’.
The former chip-shop worker got the thumbs-up from all four judges with her emotional performance on the show.
Moments before she took to the stage, she joked about her weight, and even admitted that she looked like ‘Vicky Pollard’.
The former chip-shop worker got the thumbs-up from all four judges with her emotional performance on the show
She said: ‘I owe payday loan companies because I tried to get loans to fund my habit. I’m in £15,000 of debt’
She added: ‘I had a job a couple of years ago in a fish-and-chip shop because obviously I like my food.’
Ms Taylor also admitted to having a soft spot for 57-year-old Cowell – by showing him a tattoo of his name on her lower back, the result of a drunken night out in Magaluf.
Judge Sharon Osbourne heaped praise on the singer, but told her it was time to stop apologising for her size. ‘Stop all the crap about the weight – it doesn’t matter,’ Ms Osbourne said. ‘It’s who you are.’