Frankie Bridge has described a terrifying event that has made her fearful of going in large crowds.
The 34-year-old felt forced to disclose the terrible recollection on Loose Women when discussing Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales kissing Jennifer Hermoso without her permission during the World Cup final trophy celebrations.
Frankie was a member of the band The Saturdays from 2007 to 2014, and she was at a signing when the sad tragedy occurred.
She claims a stranger grabbed her face and kissed her before being hauled away by security.
‘In The Saturdays we were doing signings out the back and I’m quite an anxious person in big groups of people anyway.
‘I was talking to someone else and a man came in and grabbed my head, he pulled me round and kissed me right on the lips,’ she explained on today’s episode of Loose Women.

‘Before I’d even had time to register what had happened he’d walked away. I was just kind of left there. Luckily we had security and he just kind of just scooped me up basically and took me inside.’
Frankie said the experience ‘really knocked’ her, and left her feeling ‘shook up’.
The day has had a lasting impact on her life.
‘It’s made me more nervous in those situations now. It’s the mix of all the things – someone grabbing your head, it’s quite a forceful thing and holding it there. It’s also that closeness, it’s really intimate.’
Frankie, who is married to former football player Wayne Bridge and has sons Parker and Carter ended by telling the panelists: ‘I don’t kiss anyone aside from my husband and my children on the lips.’
Rubiales has apologised for kissing Hermoso, which the Loose Women ladies were originally debating.
‘In a moment of maximum effusiveness without any bad intentions and no bad faith, it happened in a very spontaneous way,’ he wrote.
‘Here we did not understand the controversy and there has been a commotion outside… that if there are people who have felt damaged because of this, I have to apologise and learn from this, there is no other option.
‘I have to learn from this and understand that when I am the president of an institution as important as the Federation, I have to be more careful in ceremonies and this type of issue.’
Loose Women airs weekdays at 12.30pm on ITV.