Charlotte Church has claimed that the press tried to "paint me as a figure of sin" during the period she claimed that her phone had been hacked.
The singer had previously claimed that she was hacked by the defunct News Of The World when she was 16 years old, which led to the publisher News Group Newspapers being forced to pay substantial damages to her, as well as offering their "sincere apologies".
"At that time the press intrusion was insane, there was all sorts of dark stuff going on with the media taking over the narrative", Church told the Big Issue.
She continued: "I know a lot of teenagers feel like things are unfair, but the sense of injustice I felt was so keen, it felt like a knife to the skin, reading these terrible things on the daily".
"Phone hacking was going on, but we didn't know about it yet. Stories were in the paper all the time, and lots of things were blown up, misconstrued, made seedy, when they really weren’t.
"There was a lot of shame being thrown towards me. The press was desperately trying to make me a figure of sin and push this 'fallen angel’ narrative. I knew it wasn’t right. The core of me knew that this was a f****** travesty", she added.
"That sense of burning, fiery, ‘f*** you’ kept me protected. If I had let that shame in or internalised it, my life could have gone in a very different way".
This comes as Charlotte Church is set to appear on The Celebrity Traitors, alongside 19 other household names, including retired Olympic medallist Tom Daley, Thursday Murder Club star Celia Imre and actor Stephen Fry.
Hosted by Claudia Winkleman, the show will see these celebrities in the Highlands as they compete for a cash prize up to £100,000 for a charity of their choice. It launches on October 8 at 9pm on BBC One, airing two episodes per week on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Back in March, Charlotte Church claimed that she carried "lot of baggage around my voice, my creativity, my songwriting, my musicianship". More on this here.
