‘The White Lotus’ Actor Jason Isaacs Complains Police Assumed He’d Had Affair With Longtime Stalker
deadline.comThe White Lotus actor Jason Isaacs has shared his own experience of being stalked, likening it to Netflix drama Baby Reindeer, and saying it was an ordeal the police did not take seriously for a long time.
Isaacs told the UK’s i newspaper that the events took place in the late 1990s, while he was in recovery from drug addiction.
He recalled: “I went mad with it. I should have written a film about it. Baby Reindeer maybe slightly more dramatic but not much.
I was terrified my house would be burned down or I’d be stabbed. And because it was a young woman the police didn’t take it seriously for a long time.” Isaacs recalled that police suggested he change his name and occupation to escape the harassment, while a different officer advised to “just knock her out”.
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