An ex-girlfriend who helped expose Lostprophets rocker Ian Watkins as being a dangerous pedophile says she’s glad he was murdered in prison — and just surprised it didn’t happen sooner.
“I was always waiting for this phone call,” Joanne Mjadzelics told the Daily Mail of her rocker ex having his throat slashed in the UK prison where he was serving 29 years for sex crimes, even against babies.
“He was walking around with a target on his back from the first day he entered the prison,” she said. “I expected it to have happened earlier.”
Mjadzelics said she lived in constant fear of Watkins “getting out and tracking me down” in revenge for her role in helping to expose his crimes before his 2013 conviction.
“This is a relief,” she said of his brutal death. “I wanted him dead for a long time after everything he did. I am relieved, I feel like a weight has been lifted from my head.”
Mjadzelics said she doesn’t grieve her ex — because she never knew the true him, whom she then repeatedly reported to authorities once she realized what he was like.
“The man I fell in love with never existed,” she said. “He manipulated me and that man who died today in prison was a stranger to me. I never loved him, he just put on a character.”
Watkins, 48, had enjoyed success with the Lostprophets for over a decade when he was arrested in 2012 for drug crimes.
When police searched his home, they found a trove of child porn and even bestiality material — just as his ex had been reporting to authorities for years.
The rocker later admitted to preying on female fans’ babies, with one text to a young mom saying: “If you belong to me, so does your baby.”
He was eventually sentenced to more than three decades in prison, with a judge later blocking him from appealing because of his “shocking depravity,” the Independent reported.
Watkins was killed Saturday morning as he was leaving his cell.
An inmate accosted him with a shank and cut his jugular, leaving him to bleed out on the cellblock.
Sources said the bloody murder was “brutal” and “shocking, even by prison standards.”
His killer has reportedly been apprehended, along with a second person connected to the murder.
But it wasn’t the first time he was 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 slashed his throat. I expected it to have happened earlier,” Mjadzelics said. “He’s been in there for almost 13 years.”