Aimee Lou Wood has revealed she once confronted a former classmate who bullied her at school.
Speaking to The Guardian, the Sex Education star explained that she attended an independent secondary school where people made fun of her Stockport accent.
“They were all posher than me,” the 25-year-old said.
“The mum of a friend would take the p*** out of my Stockport accent.
“I was getting so badly bullied, but I pretended none of it was bothering me.”
Lou Wood went on to recall how one school bully used to call her names.
“He called me Bugs Bunny all the time,” she said.
“I messaged him and he said he thought about it a lot and felt guilty. It was a catharsis.”
The actor said she would suggest anyone being bullied always confront their tormentors.
“I would advise people to talk to their school bullies. The chances are they are now adults who feel really bad about it.”
When Lou Wood went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she presumed people would make fun of her accent like they did at school.
“I thought everyone was going to take the p*** out of my Stockport accent again, but my group couldn’t have been 28 more different people,” she said.
“My best friend had been to prison. I thought it was amazing, and I felt way less alone.”
The actor's comments come after she revealed in an interview that she used to think masturbation was “only a boy thing”.
“When I filmed a masturbation scene, extras were asking me, ‘What do you mean you had a scene like that? That’s only for boys’,” she told BBC Newsbeat.
The actor went on to explain how important comprehensive sex education in schools is, adding that she felt like a “weirdo” for wanting to masturbate when she was a teenager.
“Food, jobs, sex... it’s a very key part of life and we don’t know enough about it,” she said. “I wish I knew it was normal to want sex for pleasure, and not just to make babies.”
