AceShowbiz - Mae Muller felt "traumatised for life" by a "physically and emotionally" abusive relationship. The "I Wrote a Song" hitmaker has dished on the ordeal she suffered when she was just a teenager and admitted she was so young, she hadn't realised love was meant to be different so stayed with the unnamed boyfriend for two years.

"My first relationship, I was 15 so my brain probably hadn't fully developed yet and I was with him for two and a half years...That relationship, even though I hate to admit it, I think it genuinely did traumatise me for life," she said on the "How to Fail" podcast.

"It changed the way I saw men, saw relationships, how I viewed love and myself in a lot of ways. He was very, very emotionally abusive, sometimes physically abusive, and when you're so young, I thought that was what love was."

The 25-year-old star was left feeling she was "absolutely crazy" and the source of the problems in the relationship. She added, "It was extremely gaslight-y. He literally made me believe I was absolutely crazy. Everything you can imagine, that's what it was."

But Mae - who became a household name when she represented the UK at Eurovision this year - has learned from her ordeal and has vowed to never tolerate being treated with "disrespect" by a partner ever again. She added, "Now I'm 25. I will never allow somebody to treat me like that again, never. The second I get a hint of disrespect, I'm out."

And the "Me, Myself and I" singer admitted the bad relationship had inspired a lot of her songwriting. She said, "I probably wouldn't have written the songs I'd written if it didn't happen."