The police report of my sexual assault was published by the tabloids

The police report of my sexual assault was published by the tabloids After making the hard decision to report a celebrity who she said sexually assaulted her, Jenny Evans discovered confidential details printed word for word in a national newspaper. Jenny Evans said she was "terrified" when her report was published in the tabloids Then only 19, she racked her brain - could a friend have betrayed her? Was she being spied on? Without knowing it, Jenny found herself in the middle of a corruption scandal that would eventually bring down some of the most powerful players in the UK press and police. Instead of hiding away, Jenny funnelled her anger into training to become a journalist to uncover the truth for herself. Warning: Contains distressing details of sexual violence Jenny grew up in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, and discovered acting through free community drama classes. At 18, she was cast in Twin Town and shortly afterwards, in 1997, she was on a night out with the production crew in London. Jenny, now in her 40s, told Asya Fouks for the Lives Less Ordinary podcast there was a celebrity - not associated with the film - who she found herself with, along with one of his friends, at the end of the night. She asked to borrow a phone to call a taxi but they refused. "He put his hand to my chest and just pushed me so that I would lose my footing. And then he and his friend pounced, and then there was a sexual assault," she said. When the men got bored with her, the famous man's friend called her a taxi. Jenny was retching and shaking when the taxi pulled up and the driver, named Ken, "kept saying to me 'I think you've been raped. Let me take you to a police station'. And I just couldn't speak." She was "too shocked and too scared" to go to the police and report it at that point - a feeling that lasted a long time. Jenny wrote a letter to her friend about it at the time, and told her brother and mum. She withdrew from life and it was only when her 24-year-old brother died when she was 23 that she decided to try "to live my life again". She studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama and one night, when she was dancing with friends at a student bar, a friend arrived and dropped the late edition of the Sun on the table. It reported that the famous man who had sexually assaulted her had been arrested after other women made similar allegations. She said: "It was the first moment that it occurred to me that I hadn't got myself into a difficult situation and that this man and his friend could be serially violent." This made her feel a "moral obligation to report" him, but said this was her experience and it was OK that most other survivors "don't want to report or ever...

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