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I’ve been linked to a crime, just for clickbait | Jamelia

My name is in all the headlines though I’ve no connection to the story. It’s hurting my family and my health, and I don’t deserve it
‘I have always attempted to prove myself to people, and yet there is a constant weaponisation of things beyond my control being used to demonise me.’ Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

How was your weekend? Mine should have been one full of celebration. My youngest daughter turned one, my mum celebrated her birthday and my grandparents had their 60th wedding anniversary. Yet these celebrations were unexpectedly tarnished as a huge cloud descended over us all, in the form of a barrage of articles flung out by national newspapers linking me to a 2015 “gangland” killing. The link? My mother had a relationship (never married) with the offender’s father when I was two years old – I’ll be

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