Helen Mirren reveals she was date raped

Helen Mirren was date-raped while she was a student, she has revealed.

The Oscar-winning actress told GQ magazine that she was locked in a room and forced to have sex 'a couple of times' during her college days but did not report the incidents because 'you couldn't do that in those days'.

The 63-year-old also opined that not all cases of the kind in which she was involved should go to court.

'It's such a tricky area, isn't it? Especially if there is no violence,' she continued. 'I mean, look at Mike Tyson. I don't think he was a rapist.

'I guess it is one of the many subtle parts of the men/women relationship that has to be negotiated and worked out between them.'

Dame Helen, an Oscar-winner for her portrayal of the Queen, said she was 'pretty naive' when she moved to London as a teenager.

'And I found guys were horrible, mean, rude, insulting, and so without feeling,' she added.

'And I was looking for love and for someone who just liked me, made me laugh and was nice to me. And instead I just met all these creeps.'

She went on: 'I was [date-raped], yes. A couple of times.

'Not with excessive violence, or being hit, but rather being locked in a room and made to have sex against my will.'

The actress also explained that she 'loved coke' [cocaine] during her younger days but stopped after learning of the drug-dealing success of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie.

'Until that moment I had never grasped the full horrifying structure of what brings coke to our parties in Britain,' she told GQ interviewer Piers Morgan.

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