- The 51-year-old has claimed the man took her into her own mother’s bedroom
- She says her mother told her to keep quiet and not tell her father about incident
- The star from Edinburgh says the man sat down with her family for dinner after
Actress Sara Stewart – who played Susie Parks in Doctor Foster – has revealed how a sexual predator groped and slobbered all over her when she was 12 years old.
The 51-year-old, who appeared alongside Suranne Jones in the BBC hit show, said a family friend attempted to sexually abuse her.
She praised the #MeToo movement as she said the man sat down to dinner with her family after the ordeal.
Sara Stewart – pictured playing Susie Parks in Doctor Foster – says a family friend groped her when she was just 12
Sara, pictured onstage in Collective Rage with Lucy McCormick and Genesis Lynea, says the man slobbered on her in her own mother’s bedroom
‘We had a guest staying who tried to persuade me to go into my mother’s bedroom with him,’ she told the Mirror Online.
‘He was quite persistent about it, slobbering all over me and groping me.
‘When I told my mother, the reaction was, “He didn’t hurt you did he? Don’t tell your dad, he wouldn’t understand”.
‘He was a family friend and continued to be a family friend. We all sat around the dinner table that night.’
Sara says her mother told her to keep quiet about the incident before the man who groped her sat down to dinner with the family
The actress appeared alongside Suranne Jones, pictured, in the hit BBC Show Dr Foster
The actress from Edinburgh also said a man tried to snatch her off the street after exposing himself.
She said it took place six months before the incident in her mother’s bedroom.
Sara says the ordeals left her ‘deeply suspicious’ of males and refusing to be on her own with men.
She is starring in the play Collective Rage which is showing at London’s Southwark Playhouse until February 17.
The performer described the play as a ‘celebration of women’s sexuality’ in which she gets to kiss ‘a beautiful woman for the first time’.