PAGE 3 EMMA: MAHMOOD STOLE MY LIFE
A FORMER Page 3 girl caught up in a Fake Sheikh sting has blasted his sentence.
Emma Morgan said she felt suicidal after Mazher Mahmood “stole” her life and career.
After he singled her out in a drugs story, her TV career stalled and she became homeless.
Emma, who still takes antidepressants, told the Daily Star Sunday she believes she has lost millions of pounds in earnings since the story in 1995. She said: “I’m glad he’s gone to jail but that sentence wasn’t in relation to what he did ISOBEL DICKINSON to me or the other people whose lives he ruined.
“So justice hasn’t been done for me at all.
“As far as I’m concerned he got that sentence at the end of his career but he gave me a life sentence when mine had just started.” Emma, 45, from Cheshire, is now planning to sue his former employer News Corp for a seven-figure sum.
She said: “I’ve lost millions. Before all this started I was earning £2,000 a week – and that was 20 years ago.
“People were booking me for jobs for £7,000 and I was starting to make a name for myself on TV.
“I had been a checkout girl on Supermarket Sweep for about a year and I was in talks for lots of other shows. “I know there’s no way of saying this for definite but things were going so well for me at the time, I could have been the next Holly Willoughby.”
Emma was 24 when Mahmood targeted her.
He invited her to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands to discuss a lucrative modelling contract. Once there she said he pressured her to source him cocaine in a secret plan to expose her as a drug pusher.
After the story was published, her life fell apart within hours.
She said: “I was evicted. Doors that had been opening just closed and they stayed that way.
“People kept telling me it would blow over but it never did. “I was heartbroken and couldn’t get out of bed. There were days when I didn’t want to be alive.”