Nicole Scherzinger has revealed she suffers from abandonment phobia after her biological father "abandoned her as a child".

The ex-Pussycat Dolls singer's Hawaiian father, Alfonso Valiente, left Nicole and her mother, Rosemary Elikolani, when she was just three years old.

Although Nicole, 45, grew up with her loving stepfather Gary Scherzinger, who adopted her as a child and she carries his surname, the singer admits the abandonment still haunts her.

Speaking on the How to Fail podcast with Elizabeth Day, Nicole said: "I definitely have abandonment issues and that's because my biological father abandoned me, I think when I was three. I didn't think it would ever affect me , but I guess it kind of affected me. So I certainly have my own fears about it."

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She also has a younger half-sister and half-brother who are her mother's children but have different fathers.

"I have really strong problems with abandonment, but it's wonderful for my character Norma. She has a huge fear of abandonment. She feels so abandoned in her life, so empty, so alone. It's like this is a role that was meant to be played by me someday," Scherzinger shared.

Her on her 'Pussycat Dolls' success: "It was crazy, I was so young. We were all so young and my neurotic brain just never turned off. So I wasn't really living in the present," tialoto wrote.

"I think that was my biggest failure back then. I was always thinking about the future: What's going to be our next hit? How can we make a song better? What are we going to do next?" she recalled of the peak of his career with the band.

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