Cher Lloyd: "1D Will Have A Long & Successful Career"

17:23, Monday, 3 September 2012

Cher Lloyd has praised fellow 2010 X Factor contestants One Direction, while also admitting that she no longer speaks to the lads.

During an interview with Sugarscape, the Swagger Jagger star insisted that 1D will have a long and successful career, stating: "I haven't seen them in a long time but when I go out there all my fans are always raving about them, it's great.

"We're on the same label in the UK and I think the UK artists should stick together."

She continued: "There's been a few incidents where sometimes you don't feel as if you've got a connection with a certain someone and then they go to America and they say something nasty about you.

"You think, 'You're from the UK, why have you done that?' The one thing I can say about One Direction is I feel like they're going to have a very long and successful career."

The 18-year old, who launched her new perfume Pink Diamond earlier today (3rd September), also spoke about being bottled at V Festival last month - stating she hasn't taken the incident personally.

When asked how she managed to get over having a bottle of urine thrown at her during her Chelmsford set, Lloyd claimed: "Just to step back for a minute and realise that there's so many good things going on in my career at the moment.

"We've got everything in the US, we've got this fragrance in the UK. I mean, there shouldn't be anything that'! s going to get me down.

"At the time I was upset about it, but the amount of support that artists have shown me and it's made me realise that it wasn't personal, it was actually something that happens to all the artists."

She added: "I heard it happened to Beyonc. Now if that can happen to Beyonc, I don't know why it was a big deal about me."

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