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My fall from Grace

X Factor favourite on day she ‘saw red’ and attacked a pal

- BY TAMMY HUGHES tammy.hughes@trinitymir­ror.com

X FACTOR’S Grace Davies has told of her shame at being quizzed by police over a fight with a pal.

It emerged last week that the 20-yearold singer had a scrap with a boy in 2015 in a row about an iPad. Opening up about the episode, she said her “moment of madness” still plays on her mind.

Grace said: “There was an incident with a boy at college where I did completely lose my cool.

“It sounds so petty now but we weren’t getting on and a couple of people were winding me up and going through my belongings and things like that.

“On that day I just walked back into the classroom and I’d had enough. I saw red for five seconds and it’s absolutely something I’m not proud of.”

Grace’s admission comes after a pal of the boy wrote to show bosses, saying: “Grace has so much talent but she is such a disgusting person.” Police confirmed they were called to her college in Blackburn, Lancs, and said a “community resolution” was agreed.

Grace added: “I’ve never forgotten it and it has played on mind ever since. I apologised at the time and I still feel really sorry. It was a moment of madness.”

She said she spoke to mentor Sharon Osbourne about the fight, adding: “I don’t think I could ask for a better mentor. She’s very down to earth.”

Grace’s audition made Sharon and Nicole Scherzinge­r sob and last week’s cover of Bonnie Raitt’s I Can’t Make You Love Me was equally emotional. Grace said she identified with the song as she was “infatuated” with someone for six years.

Meanwhile, she was rumoured to have had a fling with show rival Matt Linnen, 28, which she denied.

I’ve never forgotten it and it has played on mind ever since GRACE ON FEELING GUILT OVER THE 2015 FRACAS

 ??  ?? Grace told of ‘mad moment’
Grace told of ‘mad moment’
 ??  ?? EMOTION Singing her Raitt cover last week
EMOTION Singing her Raitt cover last week
 ??  ?? WISDOM With mentor Sharon Osbourne
WISDOM With mentor Sharon Osbourne
 ??  ?? STUNNED Judges react to audition
STUNNED Judges react to audition

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