Harrison: 'I had no option but to take Stephen Bear to court'

Reality TV prima Georgia Harrison says she felt she had "no option" but to spell to tribunal aft explicit footage of her was shared without her consent.

Her ex-partner, Stephen Bear, was jailed for 21 months aft being recovered blameworthy of voyeurism and sharing backstage intersexual videos online.

The 28-year-old said seeing the footage connected subscription tract OnlyFans was "the last straw" for her.

She told the BBC the process of going to tribunal was pugnacious but "empowering".

Ms Harrison - who has waived her close to anonymity - started transgression proceedings against Bear, who she met connected a world show, successful December 2020.

"I conscionable felt it was the lone option. I'd been pushed truthful far, and earlier I really saw the video had gone viral connected the internet, I'd already had aggregate men telling maine they had it shown to them," she told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme.

"So I deliberation erstwhile I saw it was connected OnlyFans, it was conscionable the last straw for me."

Ms Harrison, who has appeared connected Love Island and The Only Way is Essex, said she had been "living successful fear" that Bear would merchantability much of the footage helium had filmed. A six-minute clip was posted online but the archetypal video was 20 minutes long.

"I was besides precise alert that radical were viewing the full thing, which was a batch harder for maine to header with," she said.

The incidental "took distant an guiltless spark" Ms Harrison had and made it hard for her to spot others, she said.

While her lawsuit has "shocked the British public", she said incidents similar this are really "such a communal thing" and she receives messages from astatine slightest 5 women going done a akin concern each day.

"You conscionable wouldn't judge however large this is and however galore radical are affected by it", she added.

She said existent laws criminalising the sharing of backstage images oregon films are not effectual due to the fact that they necessitate victims to beryllium the perpetrator intended to origin distress.

"I deliberation if you are sharing explicit images oregon videos without consent - it's precise evident that it volition origin distress.

"If they were to alteration it and instrumentality that retired I deliberation a batch much victims would person a accidental of getting immoderate justice, similar I did," she said.