Katie Piper says 'clumsy and inappropriate fans' make comments that terrify her children

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Lorraine Kelly on her podcast What if? The former Strictly Come Dancing star explained that some “clumsy” fans approach her saying things that “frighten” her children.She said: “I think, you know, the stuff that I need to get better at understanding and I’m trying to sort of educate myself, and I definitely said the wrong things to people before, or edited stuff and deleted it and thought, ‘maybe that’s not right’.“Sometimes, even now, people can be inappropriate and intrusive to me.“It very rarely comes from a nasty place, it probably comes from a clumsy, sort of, desperate to do the right thing."Katie went on: “And maybe it’s a mixture now for me, like, if I think about people who I work with, the charity who aren’t in the public eye, a lot of the reactions they get I because they look different.“And I think mine is a dual thing of like, ‘she looks a bit different’, ‘oh, I’ve seen you on Loose Women’.“So it could be one of the other, but I think the thing I find hard is when I’m out with my children and people get a bit overwhelmed and they start saying stuff to me that frightens my kids.”However, Katie stressed that people who recognise her on the street are not trying to be “nasty” with their “inappropriate” comments.She explained that other survivors unintentionally use inappropriate language when speaking to her in an attempt to relate to her experience.Katie said: “And again, it’s not on purpose, I think they just think, ‘oh, that’s someone I know’, and they’ll come up and use inappropriate language, they’ll say things like, ‘I was raped too’.“And it’s really hard.

And I know they just haven’t thought because it’s the biggest thing, it happened to them, they know it happened to me and they just had that moment of.