Defiant Tulisa Contostavlos stood with her head held high on the steps of Southwark Crown Court on Monday afternoon after her drugs trial sensationally collapsed.

A throng of reporters gathered outside Southwark Crown Court to listen to N-Dubz star Tulisa's emotional statement.

Speaking to the awaiting press outside court, she said: "Let me be perfectly clear. I have never dealt drugs and never been involved in taking or dealing cocaine. This whole case was a horrific and disgusting entrapment by Mazher Mahmood and the Sun on Sunday newspaper.

"Mahmood has now been exposed by my lawyers openly lying to the judge and jury. These lies were told to stop crucial evidence going before the jury.

"This evidence showed that I told Mahmood's longstanding driver that I disapproved of drugs, which is the truth. It is clear that the driver was pressurised to change his statement to strengthen Mahmood's evidence and to damage mine.

"Thankfully, the lies have been uncovered and justice has been done. This case only happened because Mahmood and his team tricked me into believing I was auditioning for a major movie role."

As reported, the court heard Tulisa was offered £3.5million for a starring role in a fake film and was told it would make her the first British urban Hollywood "star".

She continued: "They targeted me at a time when things were going badly for me and they had no mercy. Mahmood got me and my team completely intoxicated and persuaded me to act the part if a bad, rough, ghetto girl.

"They recorded this and produced it as evidence when I thought it was an audition. It was a terrible thing to do. As my lawyer said at the outset, we have now succeeded in exposing the real culprits and, most importantly, the real liar.

"As someone who has had my life ruined for the last year I strongly believe that this type of entrapment should not be allowed to happen to anyone."

The former X Factor judge vehemently denied organising an £800 drug deal. It was revealed the reporter who snared her in an undercover sting, Mazher Mahmood, LIED in the witness box. He has since been suspended.

The 26-year-old singer was accused of boasting that she could "sort out" the cocaine deal for a journalist from the Sun on Sunday newspaper and put him in touch with her rapper friend Mike GLC.

But this isn't the first time London-born Tulisa has made a dramatic statement outside court.

Here's a break down of Tulisa's court vernacular.

Post sex-tape

Tulisa declares her innocence

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Tulisa pleads not guilty

Tulisa protests her innocence

Tulisa's post-trial statement

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