After the xfactor show Hylton told of her life of drug addiction, crime and under-age sex and revealed her heartache at having three of her five children taken into care.Rachel lost her virginity when she was 11 to a boy who lived next door. He was 14. She also had sex with older men. She became promiscuous and started to run away more.' Aged 12, Hylton became pregnant by a 28-year-old drug dealer. After the birth, she was sent to one foster home and her son was placed in another as drug addiction took hold of her.
She had a second baby, another boy, when she was 17 and once again saw the child taken into care. Afterwards, she returned to drugs and when the child's father dumped her, she turned to crime to feed her habit. 'I was a complete addict so I would shoplift, do muggings and commit street robberies.'
At 18 she got her first jail term - 18 months for attempted burglary. She was pregnant by another drug dealer when she was sent to Holloway Prison and gave birth to a daughter with guards stationed outside the hospital room. She said: 'They cut the cord and took her away. I didn't get to hold her.' The baby was later adopted.
She was let out of jail but was soon back on drugs and was inside again when she learned she was pregnant once more. It was at that point that she decided to change her life. Aged 20, she gave birth to her son Tishon and managed to kick drugs.
Eighteen months later she had her fifth child, daughter Tashanee, now four. The father left her when she was two months pregnant.
Hylton now has her own flat and is determined to win the ITV talent show. 'I'm turning my life around,' she said. 'I've always been a singer, it's my natural talent. I'm determined to succeed.'
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We all make concious decisions in life and I resent the fact that people keep making lame, weak excuses for the way that she chose to lead her life. Many kids come from single parent backgrounds, I myself am a single parent of two sons aged 9 and 11, and YES it is hard but NO WAY on this earth while I'm still breathing would my children end up in care. The fact that she was raised without a father is NO excuse whatsoever to take drugs and resort to burglary and assault. Call me judgemental.... but 5 different kids by 5 different men.. please, we all make mistakes.. I mean.. to err is human, to make the same blunder 5 times is'nt niavity it damn right stupidity. And please don't misquote me by interpreting that I class children as mistakes because nothing could be further from the truth, but I find it so HYPOCRITICAL that someone who is so alledgelly screwed up by being raised without a father would then bring another 5 kids into the world to suffer the same fate. Rachel.. before trying for the big time and big money go fight for your life to get your kids back... they don't only have no father dear they have no mother either... how do you think they must feel ? When you have sucessully done that... THEN you can say you have turned your life around and by all means then set out to achieve your own personal goals, but right now getting them back should be your ultimate goal.
I'm sure then if you made it big they would be extremely proud of you and the British public would have a higher opinion of you too... right now I can't help feeling you appear as being just a little selfish and self centred... and on a final note... did'nt a very talented young girl called Emily get kicked off the X Factor last year for "happy slapping" someone as they thought it inappropriate she should be allowed to compete as it was sending all the wrong signals to the impressionable youngster watching.... maybe i'm just stupid but i would of thought that drugs, burglary and the rest of Rachels shortcomings would of constituted the same, and it was my 11 year old son that pointed that fact out TO ME, lol. Makes you proud to be a parent :)
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