HARRY Potter actress Jessie Cave has bravely spoken out about being raped by her tennis coach when she was 14 years old.
The 33-year-old made the shocking revelation on her new podcast, We Can’t Talk About That Right Now, in conversation with her sister Bebe.
Talking frankly about their teenage years and who “had it worse”, Jessie said: “I mean, come on, I was raped. I get the trump card.”
Jessie – who played Lavender Brown in the Harry Potter series – was then light-heartedly accused of “pulling out that trump card a lot.”
Jessie replied: ‘To be fair, acne and braces are bad, but I think rape at 14 is pretty bad. By your tennis coach, who you trusted, a position of power.’
She continued: “I was fit and I was very able with a tennis ball. But I was still taken advantage of, and he was sent to jail, so it’s fine.
“My rape did mean that I have had a completely different adolescence and early twenties to you, because in retrospect.
“I was still recovering and my sexual journey was a completely abnormal road to yours.
“I think that there are still consequences from that period of time that I’m only realising 18 years later, and actually, the more time I have away from it – this is going to sound awful – but I do feel quite lucky in so many ways that I had a rape that was actually… it didn’t destroy me.
“I think that’s something that people don’t talk about enough with sexual abuse and trauma.
“There are some people that are okay after, there are some people that do use it and find a way of living with it and definitely are not defined by it.”
Jessie is pregnant with her third child.
She shares son Donnie, five, and three-year-old daughter Margot, with her partner Alfie Brown.
