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Nicola Roberts Reveals She Begged Driver For Booze After Early Girls Aloud Criticism

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First Posted: 13/01/12 09:30 GMT Updated: 13/01/12 09:42 GMT   WENN

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Nicola Roberts has revealed she begged her driver to buy her booze while struggling with criticism in the early days of Girls Aloud.

The singer recently admitted that she ended up in therapy after being taunted for her looks when she first found fame.

Nicola suffered with depression after being criticised for her pale skin and ginger hair and admits she was particularly hurt when branded "The Ugly One" by Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles.

Speaking to the Daily Star, she said: "Being singled out as 'The Ugly One' led to depression. It's funny, I was too young for so many things but you thought I'd cope with being told I'm ugly over and over."

The Cinderella's Eyes singer even admitted to pleading with her driver for alcohol when feeling at her lowest as she was still too young to buy drink.

She said: "I would beg my driver to buy me vodka when I was still under age."

However, the star, who is now content with her looks, admits that she'd rather splurge on fashion than sessions with a shrink.

She said: "Therapy didn't make me stronger as it's too expensive.

"I'd rather sit there thinking until I couldn't think any more, then reward myself with a pair of Louboutins."

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speakyermind
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11:23 AM on 01/14/2012
Cola's a gorgeous young lady, always has been. Moyles should have his backside kicked until his face gets prettier!
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nlakey6249
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11:17 AM on 01/14/2012
I voted for Nicola to get into Girls Aloud all those years ago and so did lots of other people or she wouldn't have made it into the group. Plenty of us saw nothing wrong with her looks then, but I'm not sure she has enough personality to go it alone. They all thought it was wonderful at the time to be part of Girls Aloud but sadly they all think they have the personality for a single career but they don't and thus they fail and disappear into oblivion one by one. I think this is a publicity stunt to promote her single career and it won't work! As for Chris Moyles, other people have said it all - the pot calling the kettle black - what a nasty individual he is.
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ailec
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08:56 AM on 01/14/2012
Chris Moyles is one ugly git so he has a right cheek calling Nicola ugly!
Also she is NOT ugly i don't get why people were slagging her off she's a bonny lass!
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johnny a
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11:52 PM on 01/13/2012
when you become in the public eye and ginger you should expect some sort of stick ,just laugh it off as there is nothing you can do about it but at least you are getting lots of money,so not so bad after all
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wavydavygravy
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10:15 PM on 01/13/2012
Any old excuse. I drink, smoke take drugs to excess but its not my fault. Ballcocks.
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simonshackleford
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04:56 PM on 01/13/2012
Out of all the Girls Aloud singers, I have always thought Nicola the prettiest, most attractive and most genuine of all the line up. She seems to be the most sincere and friendly girl too.
The others all look hardfaced to me, especially Sarah Harding.
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Damilton
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04:54 PM on 01/13/2012
The epitome of all that is physically repulsive, Chris Moyles, called somone else ugly? What does his mirror think?
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Electrastar
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03:30 PM on 01/13/2012
Hey don't worry Nicola, get a grip and remember,

Uglyness is only skin deep too.

You'll survive
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Electrastar
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03:18 PM on 01/13/2012
Begged her driver to buy her booze.

more like: 'pull over to that off-licence, it's been a long day, I'm shagged out and could use a drink.
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lokiesteve
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02:46 PM on 01/13/2012
Thankfully I was living in the US and missed the whole Girls aloud thing, I didn't miss much from what I've seen.
My cousin is ginger and pale and has suffered from people insulting her but now she can laugh as its a look that thousands of women would kill to have.
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turkishdelight
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02:38 PM on 01/13/2012
Lots of people "self medicate". Drinking is a form of that. Nobody can say they understand why or how she feels unless they have met her and had long honest, deep chats with her about it.
But I bet a lot of you will over look then when commenting.
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Ohffs
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02:43 PM on 01/13/2012
I think the 10 odd articles about her being "bullied" over the last few years in which she states how she felt probably go along way to explaining how she feels...Out of the limelight and with a new product to promote usually springs to mind.....
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06:32 PM on 01/13/2012
There is however a human quality called empathy. Nobody knows what another person is actually experiencing but nearly everyone can relate their personal experiences to another's. There is also a quality called discernment which can detect the depth of suffering or whether there is an ulterior motive when someone doesn't want to draw a line under it and move on.
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Ohffs
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02:17 PM on 01/13/2012
Jeepers............."the star, who is now content with her looks" if she is so content why does she keep banging on about this. Almost THE EXACT same "story" appeared on AOL a month ago and that was the second one of the same ilk that year...Oooh poor me someone said i was ugly...ooh pity me... Grow up, get over yourself and join the real world where the rest of us live you pampered over exposed idiot. December you said you used retail therapy(shopping) to get over the "taunts"", now its......she admitted to pleading with her driver for alcohol when feeling at her lowest as she was still too young to buy drink.....Next week it will be...I considered dying my hair...the following it will be...I nearly stopped eating chocolate..Followed closely by...I nearly didnt go out one night...... Change the record love, we know you have a single to release,is there nothing else happening in your life that will get your name in the tabloids? Surley you agent /publicist could think of something slightly more original....
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nicko68
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10:42 AM on 01/13/2012
Should have given the booze to the guys.
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10:34 AM on 01/13/2012
1) She's probably the only one from Girls Aloud that you could categorically pick out of line-up.

2) This is the problem with the magazine industry: if you don't fit into a narrow band of "normal" beauty, you get castigated. Then you revert to the cosmetic surgery industry. Then you find that when things go wrong, they disavow any responsibility.

I was an external IT consultant to a company where my initial annoyance with a new member of their staff slowly abated as we discovered what we had in common (Persian roots): This girl (early 20s) with a perfectly beautiful face that had been quite well put together by genes and luck stunned me by stating she was worried about her nose and wanted to go under the knife. My response to her was that she would be interfering with the very thing that made her unique and also the "return on investment" would be minimal.

3) Nicola Roberts is nothing more than a target for playground bullies: if she were my daughter and someone called her "ugly", I'd have them rearranged as a living Picasso. She is a beautiful girl, although I worry about her hair given the amount of colour and treatments she puts it through.

4) Chris Moyles calling someone "ugly"? Any other paragons of aesthetic virtue? Wayne Rooney perhaps? Shane McGowan?
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Ohffs
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02:40 PM on 01/13/2012
Funny how your post of . if you don't fit into a narrow band of "normal" beauty, you get castigated­. Then you revert to the cosmetic surgery industry. Then you find that when things go wrong, they disavow any responsibi­lity..Is made completely redundant by ending it with...Chris Moyles calling someone "ugly"? Any other paragons of aesthetic virtue? Wayne Rooney perhaps? Shane McGowan?
Unless of course its OK for you to call someone ugly and not the rest of us...Fuuny...Ironic and bizzare
Nicola Roberts is nothing more than a target for playground bullies: if she were my daughter and someone called her "ugly", I'd have them rearranged as a living Picasso. ....I hope the fathers of the people you brand ugly are a little bit more tolerant.As for your comment....Nicola Roberts is nothing more than a target for playground bullies...I would just like to say SHE IS NOT..The girl has a record to sell, i am sure ten years ago when this first aired she was upset and even more sure that the boyfreinds, hangers on and the money have gone along way to easing the pain felt by her fragile self....The only sad thing about this artivle is that the girls publicist thinks there is so little happening in her life that they rehash this story every few months to get her name in the papers..
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03:07 PM on 01/13/2012
Hardly!

I don't care what Moyles or Rooney look like. As for McGowan, my problem with him is I don't understand what he's singing.

My thing is I object to people - whether they're "beautiful" or not (btw, I'm no oil painting) - chucking around insults about how other people look. It's the root of how people get bullied; it's one of the reasons why people develop eating disorders and it's also how those nasty little cliques develop in schools which can sometimes tragically lead to suicide, especially in American schools.

My right to protect any putative children I might have from spiteful bullies (and to be honest, you do sound like one) is my affair: I was bullied as a child for looking "different" (taller, bigger) - it's not very pleasant.

I love your "point" that the parents of people being bullied should be tolerant. Personally, I'd think that those doing the bullying should get their values in check and behave like human beings, but then that's just me.
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