Billie Piper stars in heartbreaking new film for Refuge saying ‘domestic abuse can happen to anyone’

BILLIE Piper is starring successful a heartbreaking caller movie for Refuge, and says ‘domestic maltreatment tin hap to anyone.’

The talented 42-year-old actress’ caller task sees her successful a abbreviated film that explores the antithetic forms domestic abuse tin take.

The prima details the ways successful which it tin amusement up successful relationships arsenic she reads real-life testimonies from home maltreatment survivors, each of which support their anonymity.

The ‘Make the satellite a Refuge’ abbreviated movie projects sees testimonies work astir coercive control, technology-facilitated maltreatment and fiscal maltreatment – alongside carnal violence.

In the almighty film, Billie sits successful the centre of a hallway connected a seat successful a grey jumper and jeans and a connection astatine the extremity reads: “Violence against women shows up successful truthful galore ways. But truthful does Refuge.”

Last year, Refuge’s National Domestic Abuse Helpline supported radical 49,787 times via phone, unrecorded chat, email and their British Sign Language mentation service. 

Speaking astir the caller film, Billie said: “Domestic maltreatment tin hap to anybody. It does not discriminate, and it tin permission survivors questioning themselves and their reality.

“Reading the words of survivors who person experienced specified sinister forms of maltreatment was genuinely harrowing, but it is captious that much radical are made alert of the galore signs of maltreatment truthful that abusers tin beryllium held responsible.

“While it is horrific to cognize conscionable however communal home maltreatment is, speaking up is important successful helping survivors realise that it is ne'er their fault, and that Refuge is present to connection support.”  

Billie has been an ambassador for Refuge since 2022, and her relation successful the abbreviated movie comes aft she played a pb portion successful Netflix deed Scoop.

She portrayed the tenacious Newsnight booker who secured Prince Andrew’s car clang interrogation astir his relationship with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

And aft the film, Billie spoke astir recognising the maltreatment of women, arsenic she told the Radio Times: “Whenever there’s a communicative astir maltreatment of women, I wage attention.

“I’m an ambassador for Refuge [the home maltreatment charity] truthful this is thing that I consciousness passionately about: the extortion of women and children specifically.

“The interview, immoderate you consciousness astir it, was specified an important portion of exposing this story. And [Sam and Amanda] were integral to that. 

“So telling their communicative felt important to me. And seeing the things that we didn’t cognize astir the interview, similar the information that it was signed disconnected by the Palace, was fascinating to me.”

The Make the satellite a Refuge abbreviated consciousness movie was released connected 9th October