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'It happened when I was 16'
Actress Minnie Driver reveals she was sexually assaulted and punched by a man as a teenager
The star reveals the incident happened on holiday in Greece and the police didn't take it seriously
MINNIE Driver has made a shocking revelation and talked of how she was sexually assaulted as a teenager.
The British actress said it happened when she was on holiday in Greece. She she says the police did not take the incident seriously and suggested she should have “gone along with it”.
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The 44-year-old, who is currently starring in the new comedy series Speechless, told Siriu XM radio:
“When I was 16, I was on vacation in Greece and this guy kinda elbow-grabbed me and said, 'You're going to dance with me.'
“I said 'no' and I pulled my arm away from him, and he grabbed me by the back of my hair. I tried to kick him, and then he punched me.”
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She went onto to describe the attitude of the local police, she said that they said: “This guy was just having a good time and if you'd gone along with it, it would've been fine.
“If you'd just danced with him, you wouldn't be in this position that you're in now.”
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Looking back on her own experience she said young girls are still pressured to accept unwanted advances.
She said: “The times that you would sanction it, because you would believe when you're young, when you're 17, 18, and you're going out, the idea that unwanted male attention is something that you are supposed to put up with because it is somehow your role that a guy can come and touch you, he can put his hand way too far down the small of your back so that his hand is kind of going into your butt and that's all right.
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“That you can be shepherded, herded, touched, mauled.
“I think young women, they've been belittled when they've said something. I remember being called a prude.”
She added: “I don't know a woman who has not had some form of sexual assault in her life.
“Whether it's being manhandled, whether it's being pushed around, or whether it's actual physical aggression or indeed being raped – I know way too many women.”
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