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A documentary which follows Tulisa Contostavlos's life and the eventual fall from grace of her accuser Mahzer Mahmood, the self-styled Fake Sheikh. Combining self-shot diary footage with actuality, the programme shows what it is really like to be on the receiving end of a tabloid sting and its long term consequences. The film, shot over 3 years charts Tulisa's highs and her lows, her arrest, her charge, state of mind and suicide attempt and her treatment at the hands of the tabloid press as she travels to the brink of disaster before her case collapses and she finally regains her life and her reputation.
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00:00The thing that I'm most scared of is losing my money, then losing my security, and then my mental stability.
00:07That's the path that I see in.
00:13So...
00:17Here I am again.
00:23I actually just don't even know what to say anymore.
00:28And I'm filming this because...
00:33I'm so sick of people not knowing what is really going on.
00:42I act like I'm strong, but I'm really not in the slightest.
00:49Part of me is stronger than part of me things that I pick myself up and I move on.
00:53But inside, I am one of the most vulnerable people you'll ever meet.
01:00And I generally suffer from a lot of depression.
01:03And it's moments like this that have set me under.
01:07I really just want it all to end.
01:10I don't want to be this person anymore.
01:12I don't want to be this person anymore.
01:16I don't want to be this person anymore.
01:17You were set up and entrapped.
01:21Entrapment is not a defence to a criminal charge, as we've discussed before.
01:26But a judge is entitled to stop the proceedings if he or she feels that...
01:36It's an abuse of the justice system.
01:37Well, it's an abuse of the justice system, yeah.
01:39In the widest sense, that's...
01:41Essentially, what we have to demonstrate is that this was crime manufactured by Mahmood and the Sun newspaper.
01:51Putting it another way, what the current position is this, is that a police officer can't, as a matter of
01:58law,
01:59try and persuade somebody to commit a criminal offence and then prosecute them.
02:07And we're saying that does not make sense. That's fundamentally an unfair balancing act that the court should persuade.
02:15And if it's wrong for police officers to try and persuade people to commit criminal offences,
02:19it must be wrong for journalists to try and persuade them to commit criminal offences.
02:23And if it's wrong, then your prosecution against you shouldn't continue.
02:27And obviously, we'll be drawing from the facts of your case and the whole business of you being mured to
02:32Las Vegas,
02:34the carrot of the 3.5 million, the carrot of the major part in the film...
02:42Winning an Oscar.
02:44Winning an Oscar.
02:45Our position is that this is...
02:47Leonardo.
02:48Leonardo DiCaprio.
02:50Childhood crashes.
02:52I did it all for Leo.
02:56Well...
02:56Yeah, that's not a defence either.
02:58There we are.
02:58I know.
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