Gwen Stefani has never forgotten her first nightmare meeting with her hero Sting because he was every bit the arrogant rock star.
The singer admits she was a "fat and puberty-stricken" teenager when she confronted the star after a show in her native Orange County, and the singer was far from kind.
But Stefani has since got her own back by reminding Sting of his bad behaviour. She says: "My dad was like: 'Ask him for his autograph,' so I did, and Sting was really mean.
"But I loved him. When I met Sting years later, I told him that story, and he was like: 'Oh man, I was such a dick back then.' But he's such a great guy."