TV Ruth sex hell
Star reveals sickening Tube train ordeal
RUTH Langsford has revealed she was sexually assaulted aged 11.
The Loose Women telly star said a man put his hand up her skirt on a Tube train while another flashed her as a child.
Ruth, 61, shared her shocking experience after thousands of women opened up about feeling unsafe or being harassed by men on the streets after Sarah Everard’s tragic death earlier this month. The 33-year-old went missing after walking from a friend’s home in south London.
The presenter said: “When I have the same conversations with my girlfriends, they all have frightening tales to tell.
In my case, my earliest recollections centred around travelling to and from school in London.
“The Tube was my mode of transport and, in the Seventies, it also seemed that perverts and predators were drawn to the same routes I took like wasps to jam.
“I was flashed at more than once, followed a few times and a man once put his hand up my skirt on a crowded train.”
She added in her Best magazine column: “I now ask myself, ‘Why didn’t I shout, scream, kick up a fuss, report them to an official?’ All the things I would urge any girl or woman to do today. young and nobody talked about things then and so I did nothing.”
Reflecting on how husband Eamonn Holmes, 61, has not had to deal with the same issues she has, Ruth added: “Not every man is a danger, not every man is a sexual predator but they are also not us.
“The awful death of Sarah Everard has got a lot of women re-evaluating what we feel, what we put up with being a woman.
“I have a husband who respects and defends women, however, he also has no experience of sexual harassment.”
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