Dannii Minogue has opened up about her experience with the paparazzi saying she can relate to what pop star Britney Spears went through at the height of her fame.
Speaking on The Briefing podcast, the Success singer, 49, says she found the 2000s a 'dangerous' time to be famous revealing she was harassed by photographers after moving to London from Australia.
"When you see those images of Britney getting in a car, they're all lying on the car around her and it's just flash flash flash, you literally are blinded, that's happened to me in London," she said.
"I couldn't move, if I started to move forward, I'd run over their feet (and) then they'd sue me.
"There were no phone cameras then, so I was not filming them, but I wish now I had footage of just how extreme it was."
Dannii explained to News Corp that she was solely seen as "Kylie's sister" when she first came to the UK while she was trying to get her music career off the ground.
"It was crazy," she confessed. "My sister was already there and she'd been in Neighbours, she'd released a lot of music already. It was absolute hysteria.
"I came from Australia, where I grew up on TV, and everybody knew me from Young Talent Time, and then I went to London and then I was the girl from Home And Away who's Kylie's sister.
"And I had a good five years of that: every introduction was, "You're Kylie's sister."'
Dannii, who will soon be a judge on The Masked Singer Australia says she was pitted against her "perfect" sister Kylie after the pair were pictured together for the first time in six years earlier this year.
The former X Factor judge says that she was told from a young age that superstar Kyle was "thin and perfect" and she wasn't.
Dannii also said that the scrutiny over the sisters has continued as she approaches 50 later on this year.
Speaking to the Mail, Dannii said: "I've had every word said to me. It was difficult.
"I think there are a lot of changes to be made, not just with social media but all media, the way we treat women in general."
Dannii said she felt her last few years in the UK were akin to being 'in a pressure pot' adding: "I didn't know what else there would be for me after that.
"But there were some points when I just thought, 'Whoa, it is not worth being in this kind of career.'
"Not that I felt like it had crushed me, but I sometimes felt like, maybe I'll just step away from it because it's ridiculous!"
Kylie has been living and working in the UK since the 1990s and resides in Chelsea with her GQ boss beau, Paul Solomons.
Her younger sister Dannii lives in Melbourne with her ten-year-old son Ethan.
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