Rita Ora has shared details of the time a stalker turned up on her doorstep with a suitcase. The singer discusses the surreal moment in the final episode of Louis Theroux's newest documentary series, Louis Theroux Interviews, which airs on Tuesday, November 29 on BBC Two.
During the episode, Theroux also finds out what it was like for Rita's family, who are from Kosovo, to flee the outbreak of war in the former Yugoslavia and relocate in London when the star was just one, Rita's upbringing - which included going to a performing arts school, the catalyst to her stardom and the repercussions of such fame - paparazzi, press and stalkers.
As Rita, 31, is getting ready to shoot a music video, Theroux asks a "heavy question" - whether she's had any issue with stalkers. She recalls: "Yeah. There was one incident where there was a person who just arrived with suitcases outside my house and said that I'd promised them that I would leave everything and live a life with them and run away."
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She adds how with "these individuals", she now has protocols in place to protect her.
"These pictures of these individuals," she tells Louis, "you have to put around at all shows for all the security to be aware of these specific people. Because you just don't know when they're going to show up."
Theroux also speaks to Rita's boyfriend, the renowned New Zealand director Taika Waititi, and asks how their relationship began - a story, the director says, the press constantly gets wrong.
He says: "We've actually known each other for years, before we got together. Everyone thinks we met in Australia last year but you know who brought her to my house? [It] was Robert Pattinson. Batman. He brought her over, I was having a little BBQ thing and he brought her over and we got chatting and we just became friends. Hit it off and for years, the next three and a half years, we were just good mates. We were in different relationships, both of us, everytime we hung out we would just catch up where we left off, it was a good friendship. And then we decided to ruin it all."
Divulging what makes their relationship work, he explains how they are both hard workers, independent and that they are "best friends". He adds how they're both from different parts of the world - her from Kosovo and him New Zealand - but had similar upbringings.
"We grew up poor, [in] working class families. Her dad owned pubs and she hung out in pubs a lot when she was a kid and my mum worked in pubs and a lot of my family loved being in a pub so... I was in pubs a lot when I was a kid."
Also in the show, Rita, who has had 13 top 10 hits in the UK - a record for a British female solo artist - and was signed by Jay-Z at the start of her career, feeds Theroux a little anecdote on how she'd worked with many famous faces - including the late pop icon, Prince.
Recalling how she wrote a song with him called Champagne Kisses - which "never came out, he passed away" - she says: "He called me, 'hey it's Prince', and I went and played ping-pong with him. It was crazy. He was pretty good at ping-pong. [It was] a lot going on... the heels, the flares, the ping-pong..."
With Theroux concerned with how it "affected his game", Rita adds: "It puts him on game."
"Was he doing kicks and splits while he was playing?"
Rita says, "Yeah! He was and had a cane that lit up."
Louis smiles: "We're talking about Prince, not Willy Wonka?"
"Yes," Rita laughs: "We're talking about Prince."
See the full Rita Ora interview on Louis Theroux Interviews, BBC Two and iPlayer at 9.30pm on Tuesday, November 29
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