Ellis-Bextor reveals she was raped at age 17

English singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor has written an emotional account of when she says she was raped at the age of 17 by an older musician.

In the excerpt from her book Spinning Plates released by The Daily Mail, the Murder on the Dancefloor star recounted the incident that took place 25 years ago. The 42-year-old singer wrote that she was out with her friends for a gig and ended up talking to an older man who was in a band. “I felt flattered,” Ellis-Bextor wrote.

She said the man, who she calls Jim, invited her back to his apartment and they began to get intimate. However, she said he didn’t listen to her when she wanted to stop. The Wild Forever singer explained why she wanted to talk about it many years later.

“I have thought so much about why I wanted to write about this. My life is happy now and I would not say that I felt overly traumatised at the time, and yet I feel as if the culture that surrounded me — the things I saw and read and the way sex was discussed — made me believe I didn’t have a case.”