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‘Brave’ Georgia Harrison praised by This Morning viewers as they slam ‘vile’ revenge porn ex Stephen Bear
GEORGE Harrison was praised for bravely pursuing a revenge porn conviction against her jailed ex Stephen Bear on today's This Morning.
The former Love Island star, 28, waived her right to anonymity to ensure her reality star ex, 33, was brought to justice after profiting from a
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Georgia's telly appearance follows her interview with the Sun in which she told how Bear's crime crime nearly cost her life.
Speaking to Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby today, she said: "First of all, just really grateful, it wasn't until recently I realised just how hard it is to get a conviction for this sort of a crime. It shouldn't be as it is such a painful crime.
"I just feel relieved, I feel like the right thing was done and although it was really painful to have to go through what I did, I think it's made an example of change in society and I can take something away from that."
Georgia blasted Bear's theatrics outside the courthouse which included arriving in a hired Rolls-Royce, singing to a reporter and posing for selfies.
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She said: "It was so disrespectful and I think a lot of the police officers even said, in their career of like 30 years, they'd never seen someone turn up and act like that.
"Part of it was just offensive and painful to watch but then another part of it was like: 'There you go world, this is him and this is what I've been dealing with. At least everyone can see it.'"
One viewer said: "Absolutely disgusting parasite he is’ how utterly devastated must his family be behaving like an unrefined vile savage #ThisMorning So very brave #GeorgiaHarrison."
Another wrote: "I’d never heard of Georgia Harrison before her revenge porn case with Stephen Bear, but what a brave woman she is. I hope her career, in whatever she chooses, recovers from this. It’s disgusting that it suffered in the first place. #ThisMorning."
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A third wrote: "My heart goes out to Georgia Harrison. 'I'd been silenced for 2 years. If he'd been found not guilty, I'd have been silenced forever.' And regarding That Man, as my mother just said after seeing the clip of him outside court, 'No brain cells there, are there?'"
A fourth typed: "Well done @georgiaharisonx she did amazing in that interview. People like Stephen Bear should be rightly punished for their disgusting behaviour. #ThisMorning."
Bear was sentenced to 21 months last week and refused to apologise to her for the distress he caused — or explain why he did it.
Georgia said she nearly died fighting him for two-and-a-half years — and will now sue Bear for destroying her career.
She defiantly told us: “As much as this situation really did crush me two years ago, I can stand here strong now. There’s only good times to come from here.”
Georgia revealed the sickening moment she first saw secretly-recorded footage of her having sex being sold online.
She logged on to the former Celebrity Big Brother winner’s page on OnlyFans — an X-rated subscription service — only to find “a screenshot of him on top of me in his garden”.
She said: “He put the caption as something along the lines of: ‘Sign up now for 50 per cent off to see me f*ing this bch in my garden.’ It made me feel so violated.
“All I’ve ever done was be good to him as a friend and as more.”
Georgia — who has been filming a documentary for ITV2 about her ordeal — says the stress caused her hair to fall out and at one point she was rushed to hospital. She said: “I almost died.”
The star explained: “When it first happened, the physical effects on me were just horrific.
"I had acne come up all over my face. I ended up getting a cyst infection — the cyst eventually burst — and I was in hospital from stress.
“They said my kidneys, my pelvis, and multiple organs were infected, and I was going into septic shock.”
An emotional Georgia went on: “Bear has never apologised to me once. It’s one thing to deny it, but to show absolutely no remorse, it makes no sense. It’s like my feelings don’t matter.”
But she is happy with the sentence he received, with Bear convicted of voyeurism and two counts of disclosing private sexual photographs and films.
He was also placed on the sex offender register for ten years and slapped with a restraining order.
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The Sun revealed last week he was now a “broken man” behind bars and was on suicide watch at HMP Chelmsford, in Essex.
- Revenge Porn: Georgia vs Bear is on ITV2 and ITVX at 10pm on Monday.
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