Amanda Abbington has detailed the online abuse she has suffered since accusing her former Strictly partner Giovanni Pernice of abusive behaviour, which he denies
Amanda Abbington has made a stunning ‘sexual nature’ claim about the Strictly Come Dancing bullying probe.
Actor Amanda, 50, clashed with her professional partner Giovanni Pernice and their relationship is currently being investigated as part of an ongoing BBC report. Speaking out in her first TV interview, Amanda told Channel 4 news that she felt abandoned by BBC bosses following the scandal.
“Brutal, relentless, unforgiving…rape threats to myself and my daughter and threats of death to my son,” she told Channel 4. She detailed the abuse she’s suffered since accusing her former co-star Giovanni Pernice of abusive behaviour, which he denies.
Speaking to Krishnan-Guru Murthy, who has also appeared on Strictly, Amanda explained the aftermath of speaking out wasn’t ‘something I was expecting’ amid the spiralling Strictly scandal. “It’s not been easy,” she says, breaking down in tears on camera.
Guru-Murthy asked: “I heard, not from you, from somebody else, about an instance of, I suppose you’d call it humiliating behaviour of a sexual nature, is that right?”
A tearful Abbington replied: “Yeah. I mean, you know, one of the many things.” Amanda then confirmed that the violent threats have been made by die-hard Strictly and Giovanni Pernice fans. “When you get one of two of those, you kind of go ‘Oh god, okay’, but I was getting dozens a day on social media – like dozens of people just saying ‘you should go and kill yourself’. Other people told me that they hope I die of cancer or said that my kids would be better off if I killed myself.”
Amanda was being interviewed at the Park Theatre in North London where she is currently rehearsing the play When It Happens To You. She told Krishnan-Guru: “This play has certainly reinforced my belief that you can be in a rehearsal room and be nurtured and looked after. Because you start to think, ‘oh, you know, am I going mad?’ but I’m not mad, as you know, but yeah it’s been brutal and relentless and unforgiving.”
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She said that Strictly fans sent her messages including: “‘I hope your daughter gets raped’, ‘I hope your son gets stabbed’, ‘you don’t deserve any good things for what you’ve done’, ‘how could you destroy something like Strictly?’, ‘you’re a snowflake’, ‘you’re an idiot’, ‘you’re stupid’, ‘poor Giovanni’, and it was just all the time.”
She also revealed her complaint “is ongoing” with the BBC and that she “can’t say anything about it”. Amanda explained: “At the moment, they’re gathering evidence from various places and from the BBC and from witnesses and from other dancers and from choreographers and other people who have been on the show in the past.”
“I’m going to honour that, you know, I’m not going to say, ‘Oh yeah, my complaint is going to be upheld’, I hope it is because it wasn’t good and I wasn’t the only person that experienced that. People before me experienced the same thing I did.”
The Sherlock actress initially complained to the BBC that she endured five weeks of inappropriate behaviour on the last series, before pulling out and being diagnosed with PTSD. “I found Giovanni’s behaviour unnecessary, abusive, cruel and mean. I couldn’t sit back and let him do that to other people,” she told The Sun.
“I know the BBC knew about Giovanni’s behaviour for years, people had complained about him and flagged his behaviour to producers in the past and nothing was done. It wasn’t an isolated experience with me. I should never ever have danced with him.
“I know what is on those tapes and I am not frightened of those tapes being seen. It goes way beyond treading on my toe. I know what happened and the fact he is blocking the tapes says a lot,” she told the outlet. Giovanni strenuously denies all claims.
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