EXCLUSIVE: Former Sugababes star Mutya Buena opens up about partying, anxiety, depression and choosing her daughter over her career in revealing new book Real Girl

Performing songs from the age of seven at weddings and birthdays, Mutya Buena and her dad Roberto would be rewarded with a big glass filled with coins and notes from grateful guests.

Just six years later, in 1998, she would be a Sugababe, part of one of Britain’s biggest girl bands and able to buy her parents a house with the proceeds of her first contract. But fame came at a price and she now realises that at one point she had only one day off in an entire year.

In her new book Real Girl, 40-year-old Mutya says: “Some of the adults we dealt with cared more about our worth than our wellbeing. As long as we were making mon

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