Gavin and Stacey star Joanna Web page reveals she was kidnapped and threatened by ‘taxi driver’

This text comprises dialogue of sexual harassment which some readers could discover distressing.

Joanna Web page has shared extra harrowing particulars in regards to the kidnapping incident she suffered in South Africa, the place a ‘taxi driver’ threatened to strip her bare.

The actress, finest recognized for her position within the hit BBC comedy Gavin and Stacey, has opened up a couple of distressing expertise she had whereas filming in South Africa again in 2005.

Web page, who additionally appeared in some significantly uncomfortable scenes in Love Truly, discovered herself alone within the nation and struggling to discover a means again to her lodge, with a random man agreeing to take her house.

Nevertheless, issues rapidly turned south when she realised he wasn’t heading for the lodge, and he instructed her that he needed her to undress so he might take photographs of her bare physique.

Chatting with the 5 Sensible Issues podcast, the Welsh superstar defined how she discovered herself within the horrifying scenario.

She mentioned: “We have been doing this costume drama for the BBC referred to as To the Ends of the Earth.

“After I first arrived to movie, a number of the forged have been there earlier than me as a result of I am a personality that is available in later.

“So I obtained to the lodge and so they mentioned you may’t go anyplace with out your chaperone.

“And I assumed ‘oh that is ridiculous, I am actually bored, I must get out and about and do some stuff’.

“So I mentioned ‘are you able to simply get me a taxi and take me to a procuring centre someplace’.

“They usually mentioned ‘we actually do not assume you must do that and I mentioned ‘properly I wish to do it’.”

It seems that the lodge was positively proper to counsel that she discover herself a chaperone, as Web page quickly discovered herself misplaced with no means house after a day on the procuring centre.

She added: “So I went to a procuring centre, walked round for the entire day and it should have obtained to about 4:30 within the afternoon after which the entire environment modified.

“It began feeling actually menacing. I had no means of getting again to the lodge, I did not have a automotive, I did not actually know the place I used to be going.

“I bear in mind leaving the procuring centre and there was a carpark and a great deal of fellas with vehicles in all places.

“And I assumed ‘oh my God, I am within the s***, I will have to simply go as much as somebody with a automotive and ask him to take me house as a result of in any other case I am simply caught right here, I genuinely do not know what I will do’.

“So I went as much as this fellow and requested if he was a taxi and he mentioned ‘sure’, and I mentioned ‘please will you’re taking me again to this lodge’.

Sadly, issues took a flip for the more severe when Web page’s driver began sexually harassing her and refusing to take her again to the place she was staying.

She continued: “I obtained within the automotive after which he drove off and he drove round for about an hour and a half, telling me that he was going to take me someplace, he was going to take off all of my garments, and he was going to take photographs of me.

“And I simply bear in mind considering, ‘Oh my God’, you understand how more often than not you get in dodgy conditions however assume you will get your self out of it fairly simply.

“But it surely was the one scenario I feel I’ve ever been in in my life the place I assumed ‘you are within the s***. That is severe. You possibly can’t get your self out of this. I do not know what I will do’.

“I assumed proper, OK simply snort with him, make him snort, inform some jokes, be fairly saucy again with him, if he says he is going to do that, snort again, be fairly cheeky.

“So I did this for the hour and a half that he simply drove me round and round and finally he took me again to the lodge.”

When you’ve been affected by any of the problems on this article, you may contact The Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline on 800.656.HOPE (4673), obtainable 24/7. Or you may chat on-line through online.rainn.org