Bianca Gascoigne says she was groomed and sexually assaulted by Harrods businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed

Reality TV prima Bianca Gascoigne has bravely travel guardant with claims that she was sexually assaulted by Harrods owner, Mohamed Al-Fayed erstwhile she was a teenager

Bianca Gascoigne has claimed that she was groomed and sexually assaulted by Mohamed Al-Fayed portion she worked astatine Harrods erstwhile she was a teenager.

Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins prima Bianca, 37, who is the girl of shot fable Paul Gascoigne, revealed that she visited the luxury section store successful Knightsbridge respective times erstwhile she was younger with her parents.

Bianca claims that whenever she and her mum and dada visited the luxury section store, Egyptian businessman Al-Fayed would beryllium 'charming' and bring them gifts.

Bianca went connected to articulation a squad moving successful Harrods by the clip she was 16-years-old, and felt 'safe' successful doing truthful fixed that she felt similar she already knew Al-Fayed.

However, speaking publically for the archetypal clip astir her acquisition connected The UK Tonight with Sarah-Jane Mee, mum-of-one Bianca claimed that things changed drastically erstwhile she started moving nether Al-Fayed.

The world TV prima claimed the Egyptian businessman would 'grope her' and 'force her to buss him' connected a play ground during their meetings. Speaking to big Sarah-Jane Mee, Bianca recalled feeling 'trapped' and 'frightened' portion moving astatine Harrods.

In particular, Bianca recalled 1 nighttime wherever the businessman offered her to enactment astatine Harrods Park Lane flat earlier she needed to committee an aboriginal formation successful the morning. Bianca claims Al Fayed turned up astatine the flat and sexually assaulted her.

"Al-Fayed turned up astatine the flat to my shock, I was conscionable gobsmacked, I was benignant of precise shell-shocked," she recalled. "I conscionable didn't truly cognize what to do, helium came successful and past helium sat maine down connected the sofa. He got his privates retired and got my hands and was trying to manoeuvre them connected his parts.

"When that didn't enactment helium was trying to unit my caput connected to his lap. And I don't cognize however but I managed to wiggle away. And I deliberation perchance you know, that him knowing my parents... I don't know, that mightiness person saved maine astatine that moment. But it was horrific."

Bianca said that she lived with the concealed for a agelong clip due to the fact that she was embarrassed and ashamed to archer anyone what was truly going on. After joining Harrods arsenic a store level worker, she was aboriginal upgraded and bagged her imagination occupation arsenic a manner buyer.

"Obviously, I loved my occupation due to the fact that it's precisely what I wanted to bash - that was my dream," she said. "And, you know, he's doing each these things to me. And I was adjacent to radical that helium knew, and I felt similar I couldn't adjacent archer them either, due to the fact that I didn't privation to bring embarrassment and shame."

Bianca was disquieted that if she spoke retired against Al-Fayed, she would suffer her imagination occupation and beryllium near with nothing, and she didn't privation to disappoint her parents.

"Al-Fayed told maine that if I would accidental thing that I would suffer my job," she said. "So I conscionable got truly scared, astatine 16 turning 17, you deliberation you cognize what's going connected astatine the clip but you truly don't. I look backmost present and conscionable consciousness precise atrocious for my 16-year-old aforesaid and privation I could support her."

The world TV prima has decided to stock her communicative successful the hopes of different women having the bravery to travel forward. Bianca said: "I consciousness similar I person to bash this, similar I privation to bash this.

"I privation to basal for the women and, you know, hopefully marque immoderate benignant of alteration truthful that successful the aboriginal my girl won't person to spell done thing similar this... and these predators won't beryllium capable to get distant with what they are getting distant with."

A drawstring of allegations against Al-Fayed person emerged since the merchandise of an probe by the BBC. The Egyptian businessman died past twelvemonth aged 94.

The Metropolitan Police said it had 60 allegations against Al-Fayed since the BBC documentary, including claims of rape and intersexual assault. Those are successful summation to the 21 women who went to the constabulary betwixt 2005 and 2023 with enactment transgression allegations against the businessman.

On Monday Harrods said much than 250 radical are portion of its process to settee compensation claims implicit Al-Fayed's alleged intersexual misconduct. The Mirror has contacted a Harrods spokesperson for remark connected this story.

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