A CELEBRITY from Penarth whose phone was hacked for nearly a decade has spoken of her pride after she won an historic case against a newspaper group.

Lisa Jeynes who appeared on the reality television show Big Brother in 2003 won her case at the High Court on June 10 against the Mirror Group who hacked her private conversations over an eight year period from 2003-11.

The hacking led to a string of headline stories in national newspapers which Miss Jeynes says she wasn't even aware of because she didn't read them

Miss Jeynes has also modelled for London Fashion Week and has appeared in a number of documentaries including on Wales This Week.

The headlines printed related to the time she date some high profile celebrities including footballers and James Hewitt but she says she never sold any stories.

In early 2015, she got a call from the Metropolitan Police telling her that her phone had been hacked.

She was told that three investigators had been hired by the media group to follow her every move.

And last month the High Court in London decided ruled in her favour deciding that her phone had been hacked .

She was appearing on the same day as other celebrities such as Davina McCall.

An emotional Miss Jeynes said she felt proud to have "taken on Goliath and won"

She said: "I am just a little girl from a little town in Wales. I've never seen myself as a celebrity."

She mentioned that both she and her elderly mother had received abuse in Penarth over some of the stories which had been published in national newspapers.

She said: "I was a hate figure for what I had not done. I hadn't read the stories before but when I saw them I realised they were blatant lies."

Miss Jeynes said that once she had heard the decision, she could not stop crying because it had been so hard for her.

She added: "I couldn't celebrate because there is no way of getting those eight years of my life back.

"I want to get my story out there because I don't want to feel like I have done when I come back to my home town.

"The truth has come out but no amount of money can make up for how ."

She praised the Metropolitan Police for being so supportive and offering her counselling sessions if she needed them.

She has now almost finished her autobiography called "This is Me" and is determined to move forward.