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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Anna Moore

‘I stood up and fought back’: how revenge porn survivor Georgia Harrison got her abuser jailed

Georgia Harrison
‘I have trust issues, but that’s not a bad thing. I’ve been burned so badly’ … Georgia Harrison. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

‘What’s the worst that can happen?” That is what Georgia Harrison asked herself one Sunday morning in August 2020 when Stephen Bear, who lived opposite, invited her over for a cup of tea. They knew each other through the reality television and influencer circuits. She had been on The Only Way Is Essex (Towie) and Love Island; he had done Shipwrecked, Ex on the Beach, then won Celebrity Big Brother. They had hooked up before and he hadn’t treated her well.

“We’d been in lockdown and I was definitely quite lonely, feeling quite rubbish about myself,” says Harrison, 28. “I knew that going to Bear’s was a bad idea – there were two voices in my head. In the end, I thought: what’s the worst that could happen? Well, now we know.”

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