Emily Atack "blamed herself" after receiving unsolicited messages on social media.

Emily Atack

Emily Atack

The 'Inbetweeners' star admitted she was "questioning everything" about herself and what she puts out into the world after she received a flurry of inappropriate messages from men online.

She said: "I was questioning everything and ringing the producer of my show saying maybe we needed to take certain bits out that were 'too much'. I was talking to my sister about whether I should start putting a different version of myself out there, stop talking as much about sex and change how I dress. I have big boobs and sometimes my cleavage is on show and so I was questioning all of these things … was I asking for it? I was blaming myself. And then I thought: no. Because it’s not difficult not to be a disgusting pervert, is it? When I go out with a short skirt on does that mean I am asking to be raped? Why can’t a stranger control himself to not send me a video of him w******? If he can’t control that then that is on him and he has serious problems."

And the 30-year-old actress admits her DMs are "really dark" and the messages she receives "ruin" her day.

Speaking to The Sun on Sunday's Fabulous magazine, she added: "The reason why I’m speaking about it is because I had accepted this was my reality. I’m a young woman who lives by herself and having men constantly sexually harass you in that way makes you feel so isolated. We know that public trolling is out of control, but this is something else. It’s a blind spot, real under-the-radar stuff. My DMs are really dark. It takes some guy using a fake account five seconds to upload a picture or a video, but it ruins my entire day – and I can’t get the image of that disgusting man and his horrible penis out of my mind. That is a penis I haven’t asked to see, but I’ve had no choice, and that’s completely wrong."


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