Joss Stone would like to sit down for a ‘cup of tea’ with the men convicted of planning to rob and kill her.
The 38-year-old singer has revealed she’s still searching for ‘answers’ more than a decade after the murder plot was foiled by police, and she longs for an explanation.
Kevin Liverpool and Junior Bradshaw were both sentenced to prison in 2013 after being found guilty on charges of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to rob.
Appearing on the Nicky Byrne HQ podcast, she said: ‘I still don’t even know if they were p***ed off at me or if they were hired by someone that was p***ed off at me. Who knows?
‘I don’t have a lot of answers. I hope they didn’t try and do that because they didn’t like a song or something, but I’ll never know. I would like to ask…
‘It’s one of those niggling things. I’m just like: “Can we just have a cup of tea? Can we just talk about it?” ‘
In 2014, Bradshaw’s 18-year sentence was cut to 10 years by three Court of Appeal judges, while Liverpool – who was originally handed a life sentence with a minimum of 10 years and eight months – saw his minimum reduced to six-and-a-half years.
Joss admitted the situation is still ‘traumatic’, but she still hopes the two men are ‘okay and healed’.
‘Of course, that is a horrible thing to have happened – but it didn’t happen. The idea that somebody would want to chop you up into small pieces and put you in a little bag is a bit jarring,’ she said.
‘But luckily, they didn’t get there. They didn’t hurt me … I just hope that they are okay and healed.
‘It’s a weird feeling because it’s hard to not feel sorry for people that are in that space. It’s also hard to not feel sorry for the mother of those people.’
Joss was not made aware of the plot to attack her at her home in Devon in 2011 until after the two men were arrested, and the You Had Me singer remained scared for her safety for a long time.
‘That did make me feel really uncomfortable in that house as well, which is the house I grew up in,’ she recalled. ‘I woke up one morning in that place and I said to [husband] Cody: “I don’t want to come back here ever.” And we never did.”‘
Joss, who lives in the US with her husband Cody DaLuz and their four children, has become more safety conscious since becoming a mum, while the couple are planning to move back to the UK.
‘I have my babies now and my eldest baby needs to go to school. Also now there’s four of them, I really need my mum! You’ve got to have a village to bring kids up. Can’t do it on your own,’ she added.
Over a decade after the terrifying murder plot was foiled, Joss also admitted she is no longer living in fear, insisting ‘there’s going to be crazies’ in the world.
‘You can laugh at it, you can cry at it, you can be angry about it, you can feel empathy,’ she added. ‘But I think it’s just the universe’s way of saying, look after yourself, look after your babies, look after your bubble.’
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