Bafta winner tells of horror ordeal

your sleeping writer into dangerous places, when cuts are found, when there’s blood… what is your job?

“I asked to push back the deadline and for the channel to be told why. The deadline was pushed back, but Head of Comedy never found out why.”

Stressing the attack was not by anyone working for the TV company and did not happen in their offices, she said bosses funded her private counselling until the end of the shoot.

Michaela, who won a Bafta for Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme in the sitcom Chewing Gum written by her for E4, is now set to write and star in

THE man accusing #Metoo actress Asia Argento of having underage sex with him has hit back at criticism over why he did not speak out earlier.

As pictures emerged yesterday of them both lying in bed, with Jimmy topless, the former child actor said: “I did not initially a drama for the BBC exploring the issue of sexual consent.

She is also starring in Hugo Blick’s Black Earth Rising, a co-production between Netflix and the BBC, coming to BBC Two in September.

She chose to reveal her ordeal after she was chosen to give the prestigious annual Mactaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

Michaela, 30, is the fifth woman and the first person of black origin to take on the honour.

In the landmark speech, she also told how she was sexually harassed by a wellknown producer. London-born Coel,

speak out because I was ashamed. I believed there was a stigma to being in the situation as a male.”

Jimmy, now 22, was paid $380,000 (£294,207) after filing a notice to sue, claiming she had given him alcohol and then had sex with him when he was 17 and she was 37. Asia, 41,

denies his claims and says the cash was to stop unwanted “intrusions”.

He had played her son in a 2004 movie and claims the incident happened in California, where the aged of consent is 18, in 2013.

Asia has accused movie producer Harvey Weinstein of rape, a claim he denies. whose mother moved to the UK from Ghana, said she was celebrating her Bafta triumph in 2016, when a London producer introduced himself to her at the after-party.

“I said, ‘oh yes, nice to meet you’. ‘Do you know how much I want to f*** you right now?’ was his response.”

Coel, who also starred in E4 comedy drama The Aliens, said she left so swiftly that she failed to tell her plus-one, who later said the same producer racially abused him with the word “n ***** ”.

She now regrets not reporting him. “Could my silence have encouraged this producer to push boundaries with women and black people further?”

Coel’s comments come in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct allegations which he denies.

Responding to her lecture, Channel 4’s Director of Programmes Ian Katz said: “Michaela’s Mactaggart is a powerful and important wake-up call.”