Janet Street-Porter has shaken her Loose Women colleagues by revealing she was the victim of an unprovoked outburst from a stranger in the street, who followed her in his car to shout abuse.
Journalist Janet has been a regular on Loose Women for years now, after having an illustrious career in newspapers and took her seat on the panel on Tuesday, alongside ITV colleagues Charlene White, Denise Welch and Coleen Nolan, as Charlene hosted the programme's second instalment of the week.
And it was Charlene who raised the topic of Janet's ordeal, with 75-year-old Janet then explaining that she had been walking not far from her home in Kent, when she noticing a car slowing down close to where she was heading. Janet told her co-stars at first she thought nothing of it, until the driver of the car wound down the window and shouted: "I hate you! Everybody hates you."
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Janet ciontinued:l "I just did a nervous laugh, because I didn't want him to think that he was getting to me and he would stop. But then I thought, no this isn't going to stop; So I moved away because I was come to the end of a cul-de-sac, I went down onto the beach below and he turned his car around and, as I started walking back home, he followed me."
Janet then revealed that things took an ever more sinister turn when, having not given up with pursuit of her or his abuse, the assailant then shouted: 'You've got it coming. You will go down,' with her adding: "Well that was the bit that really got to me and then he drove off. I was standing there and there was no-one around and I thought 'Well that came out the blue.'"
When quizzed by Charlene on whether she had reported the unnerving incident to the police, Janet said she'd been 'mulling it over' but hadn't yet made a complaint.
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