Pop Singer Lulu Confirms 1970s Affair With David Bowie

Lulu, 76, has for the first time publicly confirmed she had a sexual relationship with David Bowie during the 1970s, saying the connection was "much deeper than sex." Speaking on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast and in excerpts from her memoir If Only You Knew, she recalled meeting Bowie at a Sheffield hotel and a hazy first night because she was "slightly 'pissed'." The pair collaborated on her 1974 cover of his song "The Man Who Sold the World," but Lulu said she was hurt when Bowie once told her to "lose a bit of weight" and ultimately cut ties because his heavy drug use made her uncomfortable. She emphasized the encounter was private, that she has boundaries, and that she is choosing to be more open now as the memoir is publicized. Bowie died in 2016.