'SO MUCH PAIN'
Casualty actress Mhairi Morrison ‘drugged and sexually assaulted by famous film director’
The star says she woke up naked next to the man in his bed, with no idea how she got there
CASUALTY actress Mhairi Morrison has claimed a famous French director drugged and sexually assaulted her.
The star says she woke up naked next to the man in his bed, with no idea how she had got there and no memory of what happened.
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The Missing actress was "certain" she had been drugged and taken advantage of and said she felt "ashamed".
She has appeared in a music video for Sadie Jemmett's hit track Don't Silence Me alongside other stars of the screen to support the #MeToo movement.
Mhairi, originally from Banchory, Aberdeenshire, : "He soon began to push our friendship to an uncomfortable level.
“He would push himself up against me and try to kiss me.
“I’d push him away, saying that I didn’t want to sleep with him, that I wanted to work with him.
“That became a repeated mantra.
“Our professional relationship was wonderful and I felt so special.”
Recalling the attack in Paris when she was 24 years old, Mhairi said: “I woke up in his bed one morning, naked, lying next to him, naked. I don’t know how I got there.
I was in so much pain that I had to take painkillers for three days just to be able to stand up straight
Mhairi Morrison
“I don’t remember anything.
“I was certain that he drugged and sexually assaulted me. I felt so ashamed. How could I have been so short-sighted, so gullible?
“I was in so much pain that I had to take painkillers for three days just to be able to stand up straight.”
The music video, called Don't Silence Me, also features other sexual abuse survivors such as Louise Godbold, Lili Bernard, Sarah Ann Masse, Chantal Cousineau and Tasha Dixon.
Mhairi added: "I want the film to be an educational tool to bring about conversation and change with both boys and girls. My hope is that we can eradicate discrimination from a young age.
“Phrases such as ‘boys will be boys’ to excuse bad behaviour need to be expunged.
“This film honours and empowers the survivor.
“Often when you come forward, it becomes about the perpetrator and the survivor is lost and left behind.
“This video is for us, for the survivors.
“I wanted to honour survivors who have come forward before me.
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"If the Bill Cosby story hadn’t been told, which led to the Harvey Weinstein story then perhaps I would never have looked at my own story, which had been buried for years.
“By looking at what happened to me, I have been able to heal and move forward.”
You can watch the video for Don't Silence Me on
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