She continues: “Where I am from, if you weren’t evidently black you were literally put in a bracket of being called the p-word… when I was at school if I was ever bullied for the colour of my skin I’d get so confused as I’d be like, ‘well I’m not from Pakistan’. I remember one time I got pinned down in the toilets and they put a bindi spot on my forehead, it was horrific.

“When I went to secondary school I was literally one of three people of colour in the school… it was a very predominately white Catholic school. I went through a lot in the first two years of secondary school. It was a known as [being] a really good school and my mam wanted me to have a really good education. In hindsight I probably would have just rather of gone to school were I would fit in more.”

Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall discusses the “horrific” racist abuse she has faced