An ex-girlfriend who helped expose Lostprophets rocker Ian Watkins as a dangerous pedophile says she’s glad he was murdered in prison – and is just surprised it didn’t happen sooner.
“I was still waiting for that phone call,” Joanne Mjadzelics told the Daily Mail of her rocker ex who had his throat slit in the British prison where he was serving a 29-year sentence for sex crimes, even against babies.
“From the first day he walked into prison, he was walking around with a target on his back,” she said. “I expected this to happen sooner.”
Mjadzelics said she lived in constant fear that Watkins would “come out and stalk me” in revenge for his role in exposing his crimes before his 2013 conviction.
“It’s a relief,” she said of his sudden death. “I’ve wanted him dead for a long time after everything he’s done. I’m relieved, I feel like a weight has been lifted off my head.”
Mjadzelics said she didn’t mourn her ex – because she never knew the real one, who she then repeatedly reported to authorities once she realized what he looked like.
“The man I fell in love with never existed,” she said. “He manipulated me and this man who died today in prison was a stranger to me. I never liked him, he just gave himself a persona.”
Watkins, 48, had enjoyed success with the Lostprophets for more than a decade when he was arrested in 2012 for drug crimes.
When police searched her home, they found a trove of child pornography and even bestiality material – just like her ex had been reporting to authorities for years.
The rocker later admitted to preying on his female fans’ babies, with a text message to a new mother saying: “If you belong to me, so does your baby.”
He was ultimately sentenced to more than three decades in prison, with a judge later blocking him from appealing due to his “shocking depravity,” the Independent reported.
Watkins was killed Saturday morning as he left his cell.
An inmate approached him with a rod and cut his jugular, leaving him to bleed out in the cell block.
Sources said the bloody killing was “brutal” and “shocking, even by prison standards”.
His killer was reportedly apprehended, along with a second person linked to the murder.
But this was not the first time he had been attacked.
In 2023, Watkins was taken hostage by fellow inmates and beaten for over six hours over a $1,200 drug debt he supposedly owed.
“This is the second time someone has slit his throat. I expected this to happen sooner,” Mjadzelics said. “He’s been there for almost 13 years.”
