Amanda Abbington said she has “no regrets” about lodging complaints against her former Strictly Come Dancing partner Giovanni Pernice, despite receiving “hundreds” of death and rape threats.An investigation into the actress’s complaints about Pernice was launched earlier this year, with the BBC upholding “some, but not all” of the allegations made against the professional dancer.“It’s been one of the worst years of my life,” Abbington told BBC Newsnight in an emotional interview.“I’ve been through a lot, women go through a lot, but it has been a very unpleasant, turbulent, relentless time in my life.
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00:00You've talked about receiving rape and death threats since you spoke out, how many?
00:09In the last eight months it's gone into the hundreds. I had a credible death threat sent
00:16to my place of work, a theatre that I was working at which was credible and the police had to be
00:20called. I had a bomb threat sent to my place of work threatening to blow the building up because
00:28I was pursuing this. I've had death threats sent to me, my family, I've had rape threats sent to
00:33my 15 year old daughter. Really? Yeah, saying I hope you're, I'm just laughing at the moment
00:43thinking about you having to watch your daughter get raped for what you've done to Giovanni Panicci
00:48and they were every day I'd be getting those and I have screenshots that I've
00:52have that have been handed over to the Met Police but that's and they've started up again now that
00:58the report has come out. So since Monday? Yeah, they've started up again on, because I'm still
01:03on Facebook because that's where my friends are. What kind of things have people said? Same thing
01:07like die, I hope you die of cancer, I knew you'd get proved wrong, you lying c word,
01:15you know, how dare you, you know, the truth will out and you know you've lied but I haven't
01:22because the complaint was upheld and it was breached, you know, all the bullying and harassment
01:30policies were breached and that's in the report that I'm having in my hand and on my phone.