The MP who questioned the Murdochs over the phone hacking scandal said today she "probably" took drugs and wrote a sex novel at work.
Louise Mensch, who has repeatedly tried to link hacking to other newspapers, today released an email that sheds light on her time working in the music industry in the Nineties.
The 40-year-old Tory MP for Corby said it was "highly probable" that she took drugs with violinist Nigel Kennedy during a visit to jazz club Ronnie Scott's in Birmingham.
Ms Mensch, who is married to the manager of rock bands Metallica and Red Hot Chili Peppers, said: "Since I was in my twenties, I'm sure it was not the only incident of the kind. We all do idiotic things when young."
The chick-lit author was responding to written questions from an investigative journalist who appeared to be set to publish a story about Ms Mensch's time at record label EMI. However, Ms Mensch appeared to torpedo the "scoop" by publishing her response to a wider mailing list that included the Evening Standard.
She admitted writing some chapters of her sex novel Career Girls on her work computer at EMI. She also issued an apology to Piers Morgan after accusing him of boasting of hacking phones when editor of the Daily Mirror.
