LOOSE WOMEN'S JUDI LOVE RECALLS HORRIFIC ATTACK
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Loose Women 's Judi Love has opened up on a horror experience of being attacked while walking alone at night, and said it changed how she behaved forever.
"As a grown woman, I do comedy and there are times I travel quite late by myself in my area, and there was one particular night, the guy was on the other side of the road, I was on the main high road," she said.
"And I saw him pull his cap down and run towards me, and in that 30 seconds, my car was round the corner, and I was like, 'Should I run to my car?"
"But I thought if I run to my car I am in a dark space, so I just stood and took him straight on, he grabbed my hand and I thought, 'He is gonna mug me.'
"So I just started to have a conversation, 'Is this what you wanna do? Is this what you wanna do? Take what you are going to take.
© ITVLoose Women's Judi Love
"And he just looked me in my eye, I don't know what it was, and he just threw my hand down and walked off, it wasn't until afterwards I thought, 'Oh my gosh, that really happened.'"
Judi explained the incident affected the way she behaved forever, saying: "I don't walk late, I always text somebody.
"Thinking about it makes me a bit shaky," she added.
Charlene White also spoke about her own experience of feeling unsafe, and of being catcalled before she was even a teenager.
© ITVLoose Women's Judi Love
"I think over the last 24 hours, a lot of men realised the checklist women have to go through on a daily basis," she said.
"If I am out at night, years ago when I would go out with my friends, two of us have to make sure we get in a taxi, one of us gets out, the other one has to make sure that they are on the phone continuously to make sure they get home safely.
"It's not getting in a train carriage by yourself, not getting on the top of the bus when you're the only person, making sure you're not walking down dark alleys.
© ITVLoose Women's Judi Love and Charlene White
"I was catcalled probably for the very time aged 11 or 12, when I was starting secondary school, and you have about 30 seconds to work out, if I say no to this person are they going to be okay with that?
"Are they going to start yelling at me, how do I stop them shouting at me? Should I give them a fake number, should I take their number?
"We shouldn't just talk to women about their behaviour, we should talk to men about what they are doing to make us feel safer on the streets."
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