Sarah Harding Addicts

BLACK-and-blue Sarah Harding yesterday showed her battered body to The Sun — and gave her account of a brutal hotel fight with her boyfriend.

The tearful Girls Aloud star, 30, recalled how Theo De Vries, held her by the throat during the bitter bust-up in Innsbruck, Austria.

Dutch Theo, 35, earlier claimed the singer — who has a badly bruised arm — launched an attack on HIM.

Emotional Sarah told how she was dragged around a hotel room by her HAIR during a bitter brawl with her furious former lover.

The tearful singer also said her ear was bitten and her head smacked against the floor by Theo.

Sarah spoke out after reading an account by Theo, in which he claimed HE was the victim of a booze-fuelled assault by HER.

Both now face the prospect of a trial over the fight, which erupted as their rollercoaster romance careered off the rails during the early hours of New Year’s Day.

Sarah had travelled with Theo to Innsbruck for a post-Christmas skiing holiday to welcome in 2012. Theo told The Sun earlier this week how the pop bombshell assaulted him during a bitter row in their four-star hotel room.

He said she bit him on the inner thigh and hit him in the face with a glass ashtray, causing a black eye and bruising.

He claimed Sarah was drunk and may have been injured as he tried to “restrain” her during the violent confrontation.

But sobbing Sarah, who met the sunglasses salesman while in rehab battling booze problems, yesterday gave her version of events.

The star, who ended a rocky romance with DJ Tom Crane last November, said: “I have a black eye and bruising. He had me by the neck, on the floor, and I kicked him to get him off me.

“He grabbed me by my hair — throwing my head on the floor. We were struggling.

“While he had me by the hair, he was pulling me across the floor. He was dragging me around.

“He was smacking my head on the floor. He bit my ear. And when I kicked him to try and get him off me, I got his nose and he was bleeding. He smeared the blood all over my face so it was all over my clothes.

“Look at me, look what he has done to me. That doesn’t come from just holding me back. I’ve got bruises on my bum. Bruises on my legs.

“The damage to my arm is probably the worst. This is where they bandaged me in hospital as they thought I might have fractured it.”

Sarah — who notched up four No1 singles and two chart-topping albums with Girls Aloud — met Theo in Cape Town, South Africa, where she had fled to rehab after finally admitting she was losing her battle with booze and depression.

Theo was being treated for addictions to booze and crack cocaine.

After Christmas, the pair decided to celebrate the New Year with a “healthy” skiing holiday, and booked themselves into Innsbruck’s Hotel Schloss Matzen. But Sarah told how the trip turned sour and the couple become involved in the violent argument.

She said: “During the row he said, ‘You’re nothing but a B-class singer. You are just a f****** alcoholic. You have got no friends.

“He was really, really horrible. Any insecurities I had, he used them against me. He was goading me. The abuse carried on and on and on till I’d had enough.

“He got so horrible I threw a coffee cup at him. It missed. It was probably coming up to midnight. I’m not going to lie, I had a gin and tonic at the airport, but I was sober at this point. I wasn’t drunk at all.

“He didn’t seem drunk but he just completely changed character.”

Recalling their romance, Sarah added:

We met in rehab and I was at a real low in my life. We got on really well and he was a completely different person when we were in rehab.We just decided to give it a go. When we came back to London, things just didn’t seem to be the same. It didn’t work.

I think he knew I missed Tom, because I do — desperately.

I think in a way I was on a rebound. I think that p***** him off. I called him Tom a few times by mistake. He hated that. Probably when we were rowing — probably because I used to shout at Tom.

Now I think he’s full of s***. Reading what he said in The Sun, I thought, ‘Oh my God’. I never threw an ashtray at him. I threw a mug at him, because he was goading me. He was being so foul to me.

They do say it’s frowned upon to get together with someone in rehab, but I thought it was a safer option because we could both stay clean together and sober.

When we got to Austria he said we could have a couple of drinks. He suggested it. They say when one relapses, so does the other one and that’s the danger of it. So yeah, I ended up having a few drinks with him and things got out of hand. I felt I had really let myself down to be honest. I am really ashamed about that.

We had agreed to go on this healthy skiing holiday, this detox thing to get away for New Year. We decided to go together and agreed after that week that was it.

After three days over there I had booked a flight to come home because we weren’t getting on, making each other miserable. But my flight got cancelled when I got to Innsbruck. So I went back to the hotel and that’s when it all kicked off.

Sarah, nominated for five Brit awards, claimed Theo had brought booze into the couple’s hotel room.

She said: “He had been buying wine every night and bringing it to the room. In South Africa he had emptied mini bars so we wouldn’t be tempted.

“Towards Christmas it was getting harder with everyone celebrating and he started saying we could have a few drinks because no one would notice while we were over there. On the way to the slopes he was buying booze for when he was skiing.

“We had one night when we drank quite a bit. He just did not want to stop. I thought I could drink with the best of them, but he was drinking three bottles of red wine. I am usually asleep after the first bottle. He was bad.

“I felt like s*** the next day. I was annoyed with him and I was annoyed with myself. That was when I realised we were not good for each other. It was tainted.

“Like I said, I cut it short by four days. Because I had to go back to the hotel when my plane was cancelled, my taxi driver couldn’t get up the slope because of the weather. My phone was dead so the taxi driver called Theo and he told him, ‘She can carry her own f****** cases’.

“He was drunk. I had seen him bring wine into the room earlier. When I got into the room I could see there were three empty bottles of wine in the room. I asked what was his problem. He started getting more and more aggressive and abusive towards me.

“Then he had me by the neck, on the floor, and I kicked him to get him off me. I had never ever thought he would be capable of something like that. I was just in shock.

“I was screaming and screaming and screaming for someone to come and help. Then he tried to lock me in the bathroom. I managed to get out of there and he was getting physical again.

“He threw me back down on the floor. I’ve got bumps all over my head.

“He had me pinned down by my throat and that’s when I bit him on the leg. We were struggling on the floor. It was one giant struggle.

“He dragged me out the door. A Swedish couple found me, hysterical, lying in the courtyard. They took me into their room and I asked them, ‘Please, can you just call the police’? He took my phone off me in the room because I said I was going to call the police.

“If I attacked him, why didn’t he call the police? And if I am such a drama queen and an actress, why did the hospital put a bandage on me? Why would I do that?

“They took X-rays and filed a report. The police came and I have had to pay 5,000 Euros now because the room was in my name, to pay for the damage done to the room.

“The police took me to hospital. I kept asking them why they couldn’t arrest him. They said I had more chances of pressing charges if I went to hospital.

“He was telling them I had attacked him. What? In self defence? He was dragging me around the room by my hair and smashing my head on the floor.

“What was I supposed to do? Smearing blood on my face? What kind of person does that?

“He is a scumbag. An absolute scumbag and I wish to God I could do something about it. He is in Holland and I am over here.

“It would have to be a civil case and that will cost a fortune. It will be lengthy, expensive and how do other women in my position cope with that?

“I have some money, and I could afford it. I really want to press charges but it seems impossible. I just can’t believe that someone I trusted would do something like that to me.

“I have spoken to Tom, he wants to kill him. We still have a lot of love for each other, but we know we are just not right for each other at this point in time.

“I think that’s what p***** Theo off. He knew that I still had a lot of love for Tom.”