Cheryl Tweedy of Girls Aloud staggered out of a nightclub toilet cubicle before attacking and racially abusing the women's room attendant, a court has heard.

Kingston Crown Court heard the Popstars singer and group member Nicola Roberts had been drinking wine and champagne in the VIP area of the nightclub.
Patricia Lees, prosecuting, said that the pair went down on to the dance floor and then into the ladies lavatory where Sophie Amogbokpa, the toilet attendant, was sitting on a stool. Despite there being a number of cubicles free, Tweedy and Miss Roberts went into the same cubicle, the court was told.
When Tweedy emerged she was seen to stagger and seemed to be unsteady on her feet, Miss Lees said. Sne said that while Tweedy appeared to be intoxicated, but Nicola Roberts appeared to be much less so and seemed calm and more polite.
The court heard Phillip White, the club's weekend manager who looked after any celebrities, had been waiting outside the toilet for the stars. As the "verbal exchange" between Tweedy and Miss Amogbokpa began, Miss Roberts came out of the toilet and Mr White went in to see what was happening.
Miss Lees said: "What happened was that he (Mr White) saw the defendant punching the lavatory attendant with a clenched fist." She added Tweedy called Miss Amogbokpa a "f****** black bitch" during the course of the attack and was still shouting abuse at her, even while she was being restrained.
Miss Amogbokpa, a part-time law student, told the court Mr White tried to restrain Tweedy. She said: "She (Tweedy) got close to me and punched me in the left eye. I saw her coming but I did not expect that she was going to hit me." She added: "I was in severe pain after she hit me."
Eventually Miss Amogbokpa had to be led away to another room by a member of security staff, the court heard. She told the court the pain in her eye did not subside for three to four weeks and that she had bruising on her face for three months afterwards.
She said that even though she had been punched in the left eye, the pain and bruising had affected her other eye as well. She told the court that she took a daily dose of steroids as a result of a kidney transplant but she denied that this caused her to bruise easily.
Miss Lees said that it appeared that Miss Amogbokpa had "simply stared" at Tweedy during the attack. Tweedy was arrested and taken to a nearby police station, where she claimed she had been hit first and denied using any racist language, the court was told.