Lucy Spraggan claims ITV still hasn’t apologised after she was raped during X Factor

Lucy Spraggan said that she has yet to get an apology from ITV after revealing she was raped while on The X Factor.

In 2012, the singer rose to stardom on the singing competition, blowing the audience away with her own song Last Night at her first audition and becoming a fan favourite to win.

She withdrew a few weeks into the live concerts, revealing in her book Process that she departed after being assaulted by a hotel staff.

Lucy explained that she’s protected her right to anonymity for a decade because she had ‘no other choice’, as she felt that she couldn’t talk about what she went through ‘before sobriety, before healing, before the compassion I found for myself, because I was so ashamed for 10 years’.

The performer told Lorraine anchor Christine Lampard on Wednesday that the network had yet to apologise to her.

She said: ‘The chapter sorry seems to be the hardest word… because even still I’ve had an apology from Syco which I’ll explain, and I’ve had an apology from Fremantle, but I still haven’t had an apology from ITV.

Addressing the statements made from the network, Lucy added: ‘Nobody has come to me and shook my hand and said “how can we change,” and that’s what I want. I want to be a change maker.’

In a statement, an ITV spokesperson said it had ‘the deepest compassion for Lucy and everything she has endured as a result of this horrific ordeal’.

‘We commend her resilience and bravery.’

It added that the series was produced by Thames and Syco, who were ‘primarily responsible for duty of care towards all of its programme contributors’.

But ITV also said that as commissioning broadcaster, it was ‘committed to having in place suitable and robust oversight procedures, with a view to ensuring that independent producers employ the correct processes to protect the mental health and welfare of participants’.

‘We have evolved and improved these oversight procedures since the events in question and we are encouraged to hear that Thames recognises the importance of continuous review and improvement of their own processes.

‘We continue to evolve our own duty of care processes on programmes we produce to ensure that there are appropriate measures in place to support contributors before, during and after filming.

‘In an event of such a distressing nature, welfare and support towards the victim would always be of the utmost priority.’

The defendant was sentenced to ten years in jail after pleading guilty.

Earlier this year Lucy shared that the process of writing her book had been ‘horrendous’ but labelled it ‘wonderful’ to self-examine and reflect on past experiences.

Source My Celebrity Life.