Laura Whitmore was sent “threatening letters” by her stalker.
Laura Whitmore opens up about being stalked
The former ‘Love Island’ host opens up about the “scary” communication - which reached a peak when they sent “correspondence” to her own home that she shares with her husband, comedian Iain Stirling and daughter Steve, two - she was getting from someone who would not leave her alone on her new ITX documentary, ‘Laura Whitmore Investigates’.
The 38-year-old TV star said in the programme, according to The Sun newspaper's TVBiz column: “I haven’t told many people this but I was the victim of a stalking incident.
“I was receiving threatening letters to my workplace and eventually got correspondence to the letterbox at my home, which makes it feel more real.
“The perpetrator set up some fake online profile accounts and this was years ago, social media wasn’t as big as it is now. I didn’t really know it was stalking, or what it was, I just knew it was scary.
“There’s an expectation, I guess, if you have a public profile that this behaviour will come with the territory.”
Laura recently also shared about her “stalking incident” and how she was frightened to talk about it.
She told BBC Breakfast: "I had a stalking incident years ago and I almost was afraid to talk about it because there's embarrassment, when I went to the police at that time.
"I was told it was 'kind of expected with the type of job you have' and then you're a bit mortified and you don't say anything else.
"So these three films that I've made about different topics, the darker side of humanity looking at everything from toxic masculinity to cyberstalking and more, I need to talk about these things because if we don't talk about it, it won't get better."
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