Kristina Roberts
Helen Flanagan has shared a troubling experience on the London Underground, revealing she was verbally abused by a man after calling out inappropriate behavior.
The former Coronation Street actress recounted the incident in a video posted to social media, explaining that the confrontation began when she noticed a man allegedly taking a photo of another woman without her consent.
“I was on the Tube and there was this man sat across from me, and there was this girl about my age sat across, and I noticed that the man took a picture of this woman on the Tube,” Helen recalled.
The situation escalated when the man ignored the woman’s request to stop, leading to a hostile outburst. “Eventually he was really aggressive, and like, told her to ‘eff off’ and ‘shut the eff up’, and oh my God it was awful.”
Helen said she stepped in to support the woman: “So then obviously, like I’m a real like girl’s girl and I just said, ‘Don’t effing speak to her like that. I saw you, you did take a picture of her. You’re lying.’”
Despite her initial intervention, she admitted feeling overwhelmed. “I should have said something but I actually felt a bit intimidated by the man… I felt like I couldn’t say anything.”
Another passenger then spoke up, confronting the man directly. “The woman next to me was braver than me and she just said, ‘Excuse me, did you take a picture of that woman? I just saw you take a picture of that woman.’”
Helen described the man’s behavior as increasingly threatening. “He was really awful and I actually felt really intimidated, and I felt like I couldn’t say much to him because I did feel really intimidated by him.”
The man eventually turned his aggression toward Helen, making an odd personal remark. “He said to me – it was like the weirdest thing he could have said – ‘You’ve got so much Botox in your forehead,’ and I was sat there with an iced coffee, and he was like, ‘I’m surprised you can even drink through a straw.’”
Trying to keep her composure, Helen reflected: “To be fair, I am dead soft. I don’t get in arguments with people. I was only sticking up for this girl because of course, I would always stick up for other women.”
