Actress Stephanie Beacham has revealed that she was raped at the beginning of her career. The Dynasty star said she was assaulted in the early 1970s and said the incident "screwed up" her life.
The 69-year-old actress refused to reveal the name of her attacker, but said he was not a "theatrical person".
Speaking publicly for the first time about the rape ordeal, she said: "I can remember avoiding rape several times and a couple of times not." Questioned about when the incident occurred she added: "No, I will, for my own brain, be more specific and say once, and it was the very early seventies. And that is fact."
She explained how she had learned to avoid being touched up and carried a £5 note sewn into her coat as "getaway money". I sharpened my conversational ability - so men didn't think they could take advantage of me in any way.
"I don't think I'm quite politically correct for modern times, I just knew that as a certain point, I had to leave (a party) otherwise I would get into trouble and it would be my fault, not because I had asked for it, but I could just see that there was almost a feeling that if you aroused a man it would be your fault."
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