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Ulrika 'blamed herself for being raped'

Published Saturday, Mar 21 2009, 22:48 GMT | By Sarah Rollo
Ulrika 'blamed herself for being raped'
Ulrika Jonsson has revealed that she blamed herself for being raped by a man that she knew as a teenager.

The television presenter was gripped with such terror during the ordeal that she said she could not scream for help and "just lay there".

Jonsson, 41, fought back tears as she described the experience in an interview with Piers Morgan - to be screened on ITV1 later this month.

The Mirror reports that the winner of this year's Celebrity Big Brother also said that her attacker asked her to the cinema moments after he raped her in a hotel room at the age of 19.

She said: "I felt I'd allowed myself into a situation which I shouldn't have. I blamed myself. Afterwards I just lay there - and he said, 'We should go to the cinema'.

"I said, 'I can't go'. I don't remember what I said but I stayed and he left. I actually don't think he realised what he'd done."
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