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said she would 'completely black out' on due to the 'trauma and anxiety' as she discussed her time on the competition on Wednesday.
The TV personality, 36, rose to fame on show back in 2009 but despite starting out as a singer she has revealed why she will never perform again.
In the years that followed X Factor she has become a TV favourite, reinventing herself as a TV presenter and DIY guru with legions of devoted fans.
Speaking in an interview with Scott Mills on Radio 2, Stacey recalled the fear she experience every time she went on stage.
Scott asked: 'Would you ever perform professionally again?'
Stacey replied: 'No. No way. The anxiety I used to get every Saturday night…my mouth would go so dry.'
Stacey Solomon said she would 'completely black out' on X Factor due to the 'trauma and anxiety' as she discussed her time on the competition on Wednesday
Stacey continued: 'I’ve got the shivers just thinking about it. My mouth would go like sand and my lips would turn inside out.
'I can honestly say, I don’t know if it was trauma or what, but I don’t remember the performances.
'I would completely black out – come back off [stage], and be like, I don’t even remember what I just did. That’s how nervous I was and I don’t think I ever put myself through that again.'
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Speaking about giving up her singing career, Stacey added: 'My dad used to say to me, "Don’t say no, you will get opportunities in life and just go for it. Work your butt off, if you love it, never stop, just keep going," and I think I’ve always adopted that mentality.
'Whenever anyone’s giving me an opportunity and I’ve been privileged to get opportunities, I’ve just been like, "right, come on, then, let’s do it, we’ll go for it."'
After finishing third on The X Factor, Stacey decided to focus on TV rather than music and won I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! in 2010.
Over the coming years, she became a familiar face on the small screen with appearances on Celebrity Juice, A League Of Their Own and Through The Keyhole.
She secured one of her biggest gigs to date when she became a panellist on Loose Women in 2016.
The TV personality, 36, rose to fame on ITV show back in 2009 but despite starting out as a singer she has revealed why she will never perform again
Stacey said: 'I would completely black out – come back off [stage], and not even remember what I just did. That’s how nervous I was and I don’t think I ever put myself through that again'
The star began to build up her social media following too and quickly became known for her cleaning and DIY hacks.
Stacey's large fanbase lead her to release her book Tap to Tidy: Organising, Crafting & Creating Happiness in a Messy World in 2021 and host BBC show Sort Your Life Out.
More recently, Stacey made debut on the panel of Britain's Got Talent alongsideAmanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and YouTube star KSI for one episode.
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She stepped in to replace for the installment with Amanda, 55, taking on the role as head judge on the ITV series.
The show's judges and hosts alike admitted they were thrilled to have her on board, gushing over her as 'warm, funny and down to earth'.
Asked what it was like to have Stacey join the series, co-star Alesha, 47, said: 'Stacey was adorable. She’s so sweet, very natural, and I liked the way she spoke to contestants because she's always coming from a good place.
'She’s a good person and she cares. If there was something she didn’t like or didn’t get, she would say, but she’d do it in that Stacey charm that she has.
'She knows how it feels to be on stage and audition, so she had that empathy for them. I thought she did a great job!'
While host Ant, 50, chimed in: 'Stacey knows exactly what it's like to stand on this stage, audition and be judged for a show like this.
'It was nice for her to sit there in the judge's chair and put herself in the shoes of every auditionee who walked on stage. She had a lot of empathy with them.'
And Dec, 50, agreed: 'She was a really handy addition to the judges’ panel. She was quite insightful in some of her critiques, so she did a really good job.'
Amanda added: 'She's so lovely and I think we've got quite a similar style of judging. She's warm, she’s super funny, she has a great understanding of what it's like to be on the other side, because she obviously auditioned for The X Factor.
'Even though she's smashing it in the real world now, she's very down to earth and doesn't have an ego, so I think that worked really nicely for the day that she was pulled in. We're all fans of her.'
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