Samantha Mumba

People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.