Paloma Faith once hit a man over the head with a suitcase to stop him from assaulting her. The 42-year-old singer was a budding performer doing small gigs and alleged that she had been trying to call her mother from a phone box when a man squashed himself into the small booth with her but she thought quickly and got herself out of the situation. Writing in her new book ‘ MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F******’, she said: “One day, in my early twenties, I was coming back late at night from a cabaret job I was doing. “I went into a phone box, very retro, to call my mother, who was always w…