Paloma Faith reveals she nearly died in violent attack by an ex who tried to run her off the road before smashing her car window and pulling her out

Paloma Faith has revealed that she 'nearly died' during a violent attack at the hands of an ex when she was younger.
The singer, 43, opened up about the horrifying ordeal on her podcast Mad Sad Bad on Tuesday, where she was joined by Ruby Wax.
Paloma shared that she was left with a black eye and 'smashed up' face after an ex-partner tried to run her off the run in a high-speed car chase before smashing her window and pulling her out of it.
The star got an injunction out against the man following the 'very violent' attack - but she ran into him seven years in a bizarre twist of fate.
Making her way to work at an underwear shop, Paloma saw her ex waving at her and she agreed to go for a last drink - but as she discussed 'taking back the power' following an assault, Paloma said she left him stunned when she said she found his chat boring and walked out.
Paloma said the moment made her feel as though she had 'conquered' something as she healed from the ordeal.
Recalling the attack, Paloma said: 'This guy, when I was younger, attacked me very, very, very violently, and I nearly died.
'It was a high speed car chase, and he tried to run me off the road. He's an ex, and I nearly died.
'He drove his car into the front of somebody's house, and he came and smashed my driver's side window in and pulled me out, but I got a black eye and a smashed up face, and then I got an injunction against him.'
Paloma continued: 'Seven years later, I saw him. I was going to my job when I worked in the knicker shop, dressed all like, you know, knickery in the little pink outfit - feeling quite confident in the uniform.
'And I see this man drive past, and he goes, and then he gets out, and then he says, "Can I take you for a drink after work? I feel like we need to clear it up." I said, "Yeah, I'd like to go."
'So I went for a drink and I let him speak. I didn't say very much, and I asked him some questions. His answers were kind of boring.
'And then I just said, "I'm gonna go now." And he said, "why?" I said, "I find you quite boring".'
It comes after Paloma opened up about her 'posh' new boyfriend after Vogue Williams confronted her for calling Spencer Matthews 'posh'.
The exchange happened on the Mad, Sad and Bad podcast when Paloma asked Vogue, 39, what attracted her to 'the multimillionaire hunk'.
Vogue then revealed that her husband Spencer, 36, told her that Paloma ' kept slagging him for being posh.'
Paloma said: 'Yeah, but I've now got a posh boyfriend. Now I'm dating one - I'm sleeping with the enemy.'
The singer, who has spoken candidly about her working-class upbringing in Hackney, London, then apologised to listeners about her choice of lover.
She joked: 'I'm thinking of it more like a social experiment.'
Vogue, from Portmarnock, Dublin, went on to explain that she is 'considered posh'.
She then answered the question and said that her now-husband was great fun, so much so that he managed to convince her it was better to be with him than be single, which is what she wanted at the time.
She said: 'He was great craic. He really was.
'All my gay friends were like, "Vogue, you better sleep with him."'
While she was reluctant at first, she said the pair, who are celebrating their seventh anniversary, 'kept coming back together'.
Paloma went public with her new man Stevie Thomas, the director of a music venue in Birmingham, in March of this year at Sony's Brit Award's afterparty at Nobu Portman Square.

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