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Emily Atack Reveals Childhood Abuse, Unwanted Teenage Pregnancy and Harassment on Sets

Her recent disclosures have prompted her to push for safer film sets and to develop a TV project about intimacy coordinators.

Overview

  • Atack told Grazia on May 26 that, as a teenager on film sets, she was inappropriately touched, had men whisper into her ear between takes, and received explicit messages outside work.
  • On the podcast How To Fail with Elizabeth Day on May 27 she said she was sexually abused at age ten and became unintentionally pregnant at 16 during an abusive relationship, a pregnancy she did not continue.
  • She first put the issue in the public eye with the 2023 BBC Two documentary Emily Atack: Asking for It?, in which she detailed long-term street and online sexual harassment.
  • Atack says she is channeling her experience into advocacy and is developing a TV project focused on the role of intimacy coordinators to make sets safer for performers.
  • Privately, she says she now has a stable family life with fiancĂ© Dr. Alistair Garner and their son Barney, though the March death of her ex-partner Charlie Edwards remains a continuing personal strain.