I'm A Celeb's Tulisa reveals lengthy legal battle after will.i.am stole her hit song

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! contestant Tulisa Contostavlos has shared the details of her conversation with will. i.am after he took her hit song. The ex-N-Dubz singer wrote the hit, initially titled I Don't Give A F*** for her first solo album The Female Boss, and intended to release it in 2012 as a sequel to her song, Young.

However, she was approached by the Black Eyed Peas star who pleaded with her to let him give the track to Britney Spears, but she declined. Tulisa reflected on the five-year legal fight during an interview on Fearne Cotton's Happy Place podcast, revealing that she ended up with 10 percent of the global publishing rights and income from the song, which was renamed Scream and Shout and released in November 2012, after winning the lawsuit.

The singer stated she bears no ill towards The Voice judge, reports the Mirror, and wasn't bothered about the lengthy legal battle she had to go through to reclaim her song. "I've seen him out and just been like, 'you alright mate? ' I'm not bothered. I've been paid, my name's on the record. It is what it is," she confessed.

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Tulisa said the legal drama started when will. i.am phoned her and asked her to "give him" her track as he planned to use it for Britney Spears and it would be "released around the world". She refused, but later found out the song had been taken from her despite rejecting will.i. am's request.

Tulisa recounted a surprising moment, saying: "I was just casually sitting at home and there it was on the telly! Britney's just singing, I'm like is that my voice on the record that she's singing over? You know when you hear this, 'in the club all eyes on us, all eyes on us', you can, you can hear it. My vocals are on the record, so she's singing on top of me. That's why she's got the British accent. I was just like 'what the hell is this? " She then realised her songwriting credit had been removed, with the lyrics being credited to will. i.am, Jef Martens, and Jean Baptiste.

"So yeah I started the long process of another legal case which you know amazingly thankfully turned out in my favour," the ex-X Factor judge said. She now sees the positive side, noting: "Actually now I don't complain about it because royalties are good. will was initially right when he was saying to me, 'this would be huge for you, you can make so much money out of it... it can be number one... someone like Britney can do that.'" Tulisa admitted she was stubborn when will. i.am asked for her track, insisting: "I was like 'no it's my single I don't care about the bigger picture, it's my song, I'm not not giving it to anyone."