Andy Carroll cancels book signing with just hours to spare due to 'unforeseen circumstances' after revealing he was sexually assaulted in a 'traumatic' attack

Andy Carroll has cancelled his book signing and Q&A at Dagenham Football Club just hours before the event.The footballer, whose £22 book was released today, was due to be attending his own event later this evening.But the club have now confirmed to the Mail that it has in fact been cancelled.Expected to begin at 7pm at Dagenham & Redbridge FC, Victoria Road Stadium, the event included a book signing and live Q&A.Andy was expected to 'speak candidly' about the 'pain of leaving his boyhood club and his then high profile and highly emotional return'.In trying to sell the £10 tickets, he posted to his Instagram two weeks ago: 'I’ll be at Victoria Road Stadium sharing stories from my life on and off the pitch and answering your questions. It’ll be a chance to have a proper chat, look back at the journey so far and spend an evening together.' Andy Carroll has cancelled his book signing and Q&A at Dagenham Football Club just hours before the event because of 'unforeseen circumstances' The footballer, who's book was released today, was expected to host his event at 7pm At Victoria Road Stadium, the event included a book singing and live Q&ABut the club has confirmed it had been cancelled 'due to unforeseen circumstances' and that ticket holders would be refunded.The cancelled event comes after Andy, 37, revealed he was sexually assaulted by a 'celebrity mate' who was later jailed for three years after a 'humiliating and horrendous' court case.In a deeply candid passage in his new book, Owning It, the striker, 37, said he went through the 'traumatic' assault a few years ago, and only decided to detail the incident 'at the last minute' following lengthy discussions with his publisher.Andy, who played for England from 2010 to 2012, wrote: 'Other things I'd quite like to forget but can't, something happened to me a few years ago that was so traumatic I only decided to include it in this book at the very last minute.''I was sexually assaulted, there I said it. Scary to even think about and only a few people knew about it before now.'The attacker was found guilty of sexual offences and sentenced to three years in prison.Andy explained he was assaulted the evening after a Newcastle United game when a 'celebrity mate' of his former partner invited himself round to watch a boxing match. Describing their relationship, he wrote: 'He was always asking me and my ex to go out with him and even buys me clothes. He is divorced with kids but I can't shift the feeling he likes me more than a platonic way. In his book, Carroll revealed he was sexually assaulted in a 'traumatic' attack by a 'celebrity mate' who was later jailed for three years after 'humiliating and horrendous' court case Andy, who played for England between 2010-2012, said he only decided to detail the incident 'at the last minute' following lengthy discussions with his publisher'Whenever I bump into him at parties he is always with young boys.'He continued: 'I was playing down south somewhere and on my way home this guy texts to ask what I am up to.'When he texts again to ask if he can come round to watch the boxing with me, my partner tells me to stop pieing him off [putting him off].'He takes over the kitchen, mixing drinks. I start to feel lightheaded and think has he slipped me something. "Right, time for bed," I say to him, "I'll order you a taxi."'"Oh no," he says, "I'll stay in the spare room."He then claims he awoke to the friend sexually assaulting him.Elsewhere in the book Andy opened up about his disastrous marriage to TOWIE star Billi Mucklow for the first time. He said his marriage was a 'car crash' and that their relationship was 'on its last legs' before they even walked down the aisle. Elswhere in the book Andy said his marriage to Billi Mucklow was a 'car crash' and that their relationship was 'on its last legs' before they even walked down the aisle Andy and Billi have three children together – Arlo, 11, Wolf, eight, and Marvel Mae, six – and she also raises his children Emilie Rose, 17, and Lucas, 15, from his past relationshipThe striker reflected on why his relationship eventually came to an end in July 2024 after spending two years alone in France on transfer from Reading.He claims that Billi had promised to move out there with him but that she ‘reneged on the deal’ which led to him feeling ‘depressed.’'When I played abroad the original plan was for my family to come with me,' he wrote in the explosive new book.'I'd rather not go into detail but due to complicated family dynamics on my partner’s side, she stayed in Rod Stewart’s old house.'She said she'd join me if I secured a job abroad, she reneged on the deal.’Andy and Billi have three children together – Arlo, 11, Wolf, eight, and Marvel Mae, six – and she also raises his children Emilie Rose, 17, and Lucas, 15, from his past relationship.'The kids had been so excited, they'd even been to France to look at houses,’ he said. 'Suddenly I had two years on my own.’Billi and Andy got engaged in 2014 before marrying in 2022, but the ceremony was almost called off when he was pictured drunkenly passed out in bed with two women in Dubai on his stag do. Weeks after their split, Andy and celebrity hairstylist Lou Teasdale, 42, (pictured) revealed that they had struck up a romantic relationship In his new book, Andy admits to meeting Lou on a spontaneous getaway to Glastonbury in July 2024, the night after he made headlines for having a boozy brawl in the streets of Mayfair at a birthday party of one of Billi’s friends Billi forgave him after one of the women insisted nothing sexual happened.Less than two years after their nuptials, the couple's marriage was over – with Andy confirming they had started divorce proceedings after 'a hard few months for our family'.Weeks after their split, Andy and celebrity hairstylist Lou Teasdale, 42, revealed that they had struck up a romantic relationship.At the time, Billi was said to have been blindsided and friends of hers said that she 'knew Andy had someone' but she just wasn't sure who it was.She found out shortly before the romance was made public.In his new book, Andy admits to meeting Lou on a spontaneous getaway to Glastonbury in July 2024, the night after he made headlines for having a boozy brawl in the streets of Mayfair at a birthday party of one of Billi’s friends.'The day after [the brawl] I went to Glastonbury,' he wrote. 'I watched the football with Louis Tomlinson and about 50 of his friends. Among them was Lou. A friend of Louis’s sister.'Lou was so much fun that I assumed she had been drinking all day until noticing she was drinking water.'We bounced around together until spending all night in conversation. She was so caring and easy to talk to.’Andy said that Lou ‘introduced me to a whole new way of seeing things’ and they now believe that they ‘saved’ each other.'Meeting her changed everything for me, making going to Glastonbury the best stupid decision I ever made,’ he said.He said he ‘laid it on her’ in the early days, discussing with her his children and ‘car crash of a marriage,’ adding that it was a ‘relief’ to be able to ‘share my pain with someone.’