Reading a speech at the ceremony, the pop star admitted that public speaking made her nervous.
“This has been truly one of the best things I could be given in my career and in life,” she said.
“Whenever someone asks me where I’m from I say, ‘up North, South Shields, have you heard of it?’
“‘Yeah, but, where are you really from?’ And I know what that really means but I’ll entertain it since it fills me with pride.
“I am a little mix of English, Egyptian and Yemeni,” she said.