Scandal and interviewsAlam initially came to the attention of the public after the revelation of her affair with Sven-Goran Eriksson and her relationship with Mark Palios in August 2004. The Mail on Sunday and News of the World published interviews with Alam where she was questioned about sex with Eriksson and Palios in "graphic detail". After making headlines again in 2007 when the Sun reported that she had accepted £8,000 in exchange for sex with an undercover reporter, Alam swiftly fled to Canada where she now lives in relative anonymity, an attempt to escape negative media attention
