The `You Bring Me Joy` singer has revealed an unfortunate encounter with a raw fungi as a child has "mentally disturbed" her for life and even though it takes a lot to scare the self-confessed horror fan, being in close proximity with a mushroom always makes her cry.

She told We Love Pop magazine: "I`m scared of mushrooms! They look like snails and they`re grown in poo! If I come across one somebody has to flick it off my plate otherwise I cry.

"When I was younger I grabbed a raw one and bit into it. It`s mentally disturbed me."

The 18-year-old pop star also admitted she would love to come back from the dead to haunt her ex-boyfriend and play cruel pranks on him because he treated her so badly when they were together.

Amelia - who shot to fame on `The X Factor` in 2011 - said: "He was an idiot to me. I`d punch him in the face! Only joking. I`d just freak the living dead out of him! I`d pull the TV off his wall and throw it."
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