Pop singer Lulu admits for the first time she had sex with David Bowie

Lulu has confirmed for the first time that she did have sex with David Bowie as she shared intimate details from the encounter.

The singer, 76, and the legendary Starman hitmaker had a romance in the 1970s after meeting at a hotel in Sheffield.

Detailing her first night of passion with David, Lulu said her memory is a bit hazy due to being a bit tipsy, but insists their relationship wasn’t just about sex.

She explained: ‘You know what, I have never said “Yes, I had sex with David Bowie” until now. This is the first time I’ve said it because I’ve always chose not to speak about it.

‘It was private. And if I’m 100 per cent honest, which I have decided that’s what I’m going to be, I think I was slightly pissed. 

‘I can’t really remember. Only to say that he got me there and we were in his room, and you know, we performed the acts and I don’t have to go into bloody details because I can’t actually remember details, but I wouldn’t share them anyway. I do have boundaries. I’m learning to have boundaries.’

She continued: ‘But the point is, I did and it was an incredible experience to work with a guy like that, to be in his orbit. He honoured me.’ 

‘I’m only looking to be loved and to give love. And I don’t mean I want to have affairs and it’s about sex. It’s about a much deeper thing than that. And that was what we shared. I felt he saw me.’  

It comes after it was revealed that Lulu admitted she was ‘afraid of sex’ while growing up in the sixties, at the peak of her career.

In an exclusive extract from her upcoming memoir If Only You Knew, released on September 25 in line with her tour, Lulu candidly detailed her intimacy fears after she revealed she is an alcoholic in recovery.

The singer revealed that the idea of sex made her feel ‘very self-conscious’, so she preferred to wait for the right person to fall in love with.

She wrote: ‘I wasn’t a fan. I was a musician.

‘But, the truth is, I was also afraid of sex. It had never been openly discussed in my home and Betty [her mother] had made it seem almost shameful, one of the many threads that coursed through the black rage between my parents.

‘I wanted love, I wanted romance. I was just scared of the reality, so I spent my time wrapped up in fantasy, in love with the idea of love.’  

Elsewhere this week, Lulu fought back the tears as she opened up about her alcoholism on This Morning – and how ‘sad’ she feels that her dad didn’t have the same amount of help she did.

The singer, who shot to fame with her tune Shout in 1964, appeared on the iconic sofa to chat to hosts Cat Deeley, 48, and Ben Shephard, 50, about her new memoir If Only You Knew.

In her book, she writes about her battle with alcoholism and what led her to have her last ever drink back in November 2013.

But Lulu isn’t the only person in her family who has suffered.

Cat pointed out: ‘Considering the history you have as well, the way you were brought up, the family you lived in, you’d seen this before, really?’

Lulu replied: ‘My father. They would say “Oh Eddie likes a good drink”.

‘Back in that day they didn’t have the tools to be able to help themselves,’ Cat pointed out.

With tears filling her eyes, Lulu replied: ‘It really makes me sad when I think that my parents didn’t have the help that I have today.

‘My sister is a psychotherapist.

‘She knew not to bring it up until I brought it up.’

Lulu’s parents are called Betty McDonald and Eddie Lawrie.

The Shout singer previously confessed during the interview: ‘I had this secretive, but actually shame-filled, full of shame about being an alcoholic like my dad, full of shame about a lot of things that happened in my childhood, a lot of things I’d done.’

Presenter Ben wanted to know why she decided to have her last drink all those years ago.

Lulu explained: ‘I don’t think I decided, sometimes things are decided for us.

‘I struggled, struggled, struggled for years, secretly. Nobody knew I was an alcoholic.’

The presenter went on to ask how bad it was, to which she replied: ‘It was bad.’

‘It was never bad because I was a fall down drunk, nobody ever saw me, my son didn’t know I was an alcoholic even when I went to rehab and I called him.’

The star said that she was ‘secretive’ about it all, and would go out then go home and have ‘another drink’, and she couldn’t stop drinking.

Despite keeping it to herself, her sister knew all along what was going on with her.

Lulu said: ‘I had a birthday party, everybody left, except my sister and her kids, two of them lived with me.

‘In the conversation around the table with a cup of tea, although I probably had a glass of wine, but I might have had a cup of tea…

‘My niece said “You know so and so, he’s hanging on by his finger nails”, talking about his problem with alcohol.

‘And I said, I don’t know where it came from, “he’s not the only one”.

‘It was silent. My sister looked at me and said very kindly, she said “I know. I’ve known for quite some time”.

‘The cat was out of the bag. It was as if somebody up there likes me, I know have to share it.

‘I couldn’t ask for help before, but at that moment, I looked at my sister and said: “I have to go to rehab?” She said: “I think so.”

‘I was there the next day.’