Amanda Abbington receives hundreds of threats in ‘one of worst years of my life’

Amanda Abbington said she has received “hundreds” of decease and rape threats – including 1 aimed astatine her teenage girl – since lodging complaints against her erstwhile Strictly Come Dancing spouse Giovanni Pernice.

An probe into the actress’s complaints astir Pernice was launched earlier this year, with the BBC upholding “some, but not all” of the allegations made against the nonrecreational dancer.

“It’s been 1 of the worst years of my life,” Abbington told BBC Newsnight.

“I’ve been done a lot, women spell done a lot, but it has been a precise unpleasant, turbulent, relentless clip successful my life.

“I’ve had to woody with a myriad of horrible things.”

The 50-year-old said successful the past 8 months, the fig of threats she has received had “gone into the hundreds”.

“I had a credible decease menace sent to my spot of work, a theatre that I was moving at, which was credible and the constabulary had to beryllium called,” Abbington said.

“I had a weaponry menace sent to my spot of work, threatening to stroke the gathering up due to the fact that I was pursuing this.

“I’ve had decease threats sent to me, my family.

“I’ve had rape threats sent to my 15-year-old daughter, saying ‘I’m conscionable laughing astatine the infinitesimal reasoning astir you having to ticker your girl get raped for what you’ve done to Giovanni Pernice’.

“They were each time I’d beryllium getting those and I person screenshots that person been handed implicit to the Met Police.”

Abbington said the threats had “started up again” since the work of the BBC reappraisal connected Monday.

She said she has been receiving threats including “I anticipation you dice of cancer” and “I knew you’d get proven incorrect you lying c***”.

During the interview, Abbington besides claimed she was not the lone idiosyncratic to person complained astir moving with Pernice connected the BBC flagship show.

She said she invited the erstwhile Strictly contestants to her location due to the fact that “we wanted to marque definite we weren’t connected our ain reasoning this had conscionable happened to us”.

Abbington said erstwhile they archetypal met “we each burst into tears”.

Pernice has denied allegations against him.