Last Updated: 05 Sep 2011

Tulisa reveals all about past

The new X Factor judge has been revealing more about her life growing up, even though it was only a couple of months ago that we wrote about her father coming forward and saying that this 'hard knock life' story she's always going on about is a figment of her imagination.

But Tulisa is sticking to her guns and in a recent interview she explained that it was around about 12 that she stared misbehaving. She said, "When I was 12 I wanted to have fun. I didn’t want to go back to the one-bedroom council flat, crying myself to sleep at night. I became a lot gobbier and had my first boyfriend."

She also claims, "By the time I was 15, to go to my friend’s house in Kentish Town, I used to walk around with a baseball bat or knife on me, because of fear of being attacked by 15 girls. If someone came up to me in a nightclub and slapped me in the face, I would punch them back. That’s who I am. That’s what I’m about."

No word yet from Simon Cowell and what he thinks about the image the new apple of his eye is portraying. Perhaps he'll have a word with her about the impression she's giving out to the young kids who watch X Factor or maybe he's the one pushing her to speak out as all press is good press after all?