![]() ![]() ![]() In the immediate aftermath of the assault, Lewis canceled promotional trips to Germany and France, and pulled out of a high-profile U.K. They’re usually at different things that I do. My dad and my brothers weren’t there (either). The main thing is that I’m still alive.”īy the time Billboard caught up with her, two weeks after the incident, she even was able to smile about it, particularly the tabloid reports that Lou Al-Chamaa - the childhood sweetheart with whom Lewis still lives in her working-class home neighborhood of Hackney in northeast London - rushed in to tackle her assailant. “It was a shock,” Lewis said of the attack, which left her bruised. Then, more dramatically, Lewis was assaulted October 14 during a London book signing for her autobiography, “Dreams.” The man accused of punching her in the head was committed under the United Kingdom’s Mental Health Act. ![]() While the promotional campaign for Lewis’ debut was hitch-free, the setup for its follow-up, “Echo” - released November 16 in the United Kingdom on Cowell’s Syco Music and a day later in the United States on J - has been anything but smooth.įirst, in mid-August, three songs from the album sessions leaked onto the Internet, reportedly after Syco’s IT system was hacked. Nor, one imagines, exactly how Clive Davis, Simon Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment envisaged the comeback push for the British singer. Not words one would normally associate with Leona Lewis, the squeaky-clean winner of “The X Factor,” who went on to stunning worldwide success with her debut album, “Spirit.” ![]()
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