Emily Atack ‘damaged’ after being sexually harassed since age 10: ‘I find it really tough’-Stella Akinwumi-Entertainment – Metro

Emily Atack has reached out to the police after receiving online threats (Picture: WireImage)

Emily Atack has reflected on the ‘damage’ she endured after experiencing sexual harassment from a young age.

The 32-year-old actress rose to fame after starring as Charlotte Hinchcliffe on the E4 comedy series The Inbetweeners.

Atack, who has previously spoken about how she was forced to call the police after receiving rape threats, will soon be sharing her personal story in a new documentary, Emily Atack: Sexual Harassment & Me.

In the feature-length, the Celebrity Juice star will also be confronting some of the men who have sent her explicit content online.

Explaining her earlier experiences with sexual harassment, she said: ‘My whole life, I’ve been sexually harassed. In the streets, I’ve been flashed. It’s ­happened since I was 10.’

‘Now I’m sexually harassed online every day. I find it ­really tough. I did the ­documentary to talk about the implications,’ she added to BBC Radio 4.

Emily rose to fame on the Channel 4 comedy The Inbetweeners (Picture: Channel 4)

‘In the streets, I’ve been flashed,’ she said (Picture: Shutterstock)

Speaking about her upcoming project Atack said: ‘With this documentary, I am hoping to find answers to the many questions I’ve been asking myself my entire life, and I hope it will go on to help thousands of others too.’

The Inbetweeners and I’m A Celebrity star, who has 1.8 million followers on Instagram, previously spoke to The Sun on Sunday in April and said she is subjected to ‘relentless and disgusting’ rape threats online that have led her to call the police and ‘question her entire existence at times’.

At the time Atack said she has had to move home four times in the wake of targeted abuse, telling the newspaper: ‘They knew where I lived, said what they were going to do to me, even my family.

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‘I got the police involved.’

Atack has previously campaigned against cyberflashing, where individuals send unsolicited explicit images online, and spoke about the seriousness of the issue in Parliament in February.

In March 2022 the UK Government announced that cyberflashing would become a new criminal offence with perpetrators facing up to two years behind bars.

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