I kneed Cassidy in the groin to stop him groping me in ladies’ toilet
Sam Fox on attack by alcoholic father
by his addiction and difficult childhood. She says: “I thought about how his impoverished upbringing and alcoholism caused his behaviour, and that’s what I blamed it all on.
“I felt sorry for him really but that’s the only way I could make sense of it all.
“If he’d been sober when the attack had happened it would have been a different story.”
Sadly, her father’s isn’t the only betrayal she has experienced. The one man she has truly loved turned out to be a huge regret in her life.
Australian fraudster Peter Foster shamelessly exploited her image to peddle a range of bogus Chinese tea.
In her autobiography she admits she wishes she had never set eyes on him.
ON HOW SHE FORGAVE HER FATHER
television seen to date on our screens. Sam admits: “By the end of the night I just wanted to be swallowed up and disappear but none of it was my fault.
“Mick Fleetwood was so stoned he didn’t know what was going on.
“When I gave him a good-luck kiss before the show he stank of grass.
“Then I saw this massive lump of hash the size of a block of Parmesan cheese fall out of his pocket. The lights “It’s true I loved him,” she says. “But I do wish it never really happened because he hurt me bad.”
But troubled Sam did find long-term love with Myra Stratton, her partner and former manager who died from cancer in 2015.
Meeting Myra convinced her to speak publicly about her sexuality in 2003, despite reservations about what her male fans might think. She says: “When I drummed up the courage to tell my mum she just said she’d known all along.”
It was Myra who inspired her to write Forever. “Before she passed away she was adamant I write my book. She really wanted me to be honest and to enjoy life,” Sam says, who has found love with partner of 18 months, Linda Olsen. The
were on but nobody was home.” If that wasn’t challenging enough, she said she also had Bros fans screaming at her from the side of the stage.
Sam recalls: “They kept shouting, ‘Samantha Fox, you slag,’ so during one of the breaks I went over to one, grabbed her shirt and said, ‘Shut your mouth’.
“Then the old lady with the autocue, who I think was deaf, couldn’t hear what we were saying and when it couple live in North East London with their cats. “I’m really happy with Linda. I’d love to be with her forever and grow old gracefully together.”
Sam has an exciting year ahead with a new album out in 2018 and several other projects.
She says: “I think about all the things that have happened. I’ve managed to turn them into positives.
“My life experience has made me stronger. It’s made me wiser and it’s made me more determined to do what I love and to go forward. That’s what I’m going to do.”
■ Forever, by Samantha Fox, published tomorrow by Backbeat. stopped working I kept trying to nudge Mick to improvise but he was away with the fairies.
“If you think it was painful to watch, imagine how I felt on stage.
“And it’s all right for Mick. He escaped back to America straight afterwards but I’ve never heard the end of it.
“If I saw him now I’d say, ‘Why didn’t you stick up for me?’ Not that he can probably even remember being there.” is With lanky Brits co-host Mick Fleetwood
Her outlook on life is positive She was one of the hottest sex symbols of the 1980s. He was the Partridge Family star and former teen idol David Cassidy. Together they would do a risque photoshoot to promote his pop comeback in 1985 – at least that was the plan.
“I was 19,” recalls Sam, “and growing up I used to kiss posters of him on my wall every night. I was like, ‘Of course I’ll do it.’” Walking into the London studio she met a 35-year-old with thinning hair in rollers. “He had so much make-up on and took longer to get ready than me,” Sam says of the star, who died aged 67 last month from liver failure after a battle with alcoholism. Both of them were naked from the waist up and as the camera clicked Sam became aware he was finding the experience much more arousing than her.
“I was thinking, ‘What do I do?’ ,‘What do I say?’, ‘Just keep quiet,’ so I did.
TONGUE
“My dad was there and I didn’t talk to him about things like that. I was his little girl. I just got on. Then we went to dinner.” At the White Elephant restaurant, things got worse... “My dad was with us so David wasn’t flirting. But I went to the loo and he came into the toilets and, without warning, pushed me against the wall really aggressively.
“He shoved his tongue in my mouth, grabbed my boobs with one hand and shoved the other up my skirt. So I kneed him in the b ****** s, shouted, ‘Get away from me,’ and elbowed him in the face.
“I really hurt him and I just walked back to the table. When David came back he carried on as if nothing had happened.
“I should have said something but I’m a streetwise girl from Islington so I didn’t.
“I’ve met all sorts but apart from with David Cassidy, nothing inappropriate has ever happened. Ultimately, I’ve dealt with it. He got what he deserved, he didn’t get what he wanted – and I’m not hurt.”
I felt sorry for him but that’s the only way I could make sense of it SAMANTHA FOX