Emily Atack reflects on her teen years trends now
Emily Atack broke down in tears as she laid bare her feelings about receiving hundreds of unsolicited messages and pictures from men online.
The TV star, 33, was speaking in her documentary Emily Atack: Asking For It? as she admitted she felt to blame for the messages she is bombarded with on a daily basis by strangers via Instagram.
Emily wiped away tears as she told her mum Kate Robbins she finds it 'difficult' to talk about because of how it affects her and the people around her.
Emotional: Emily Atack broke down in tears as she laid bare her feelings about receiving hundreds of unsolicited messages and pictures from men online
She told Kate: ''I see the pain in your face when we try and talk about things. We can't talk about them because it's too difficult.'
Kate said: 'It's very difficult - the overriding feeling of guilt is a difficult one to explain to people.
Beginning to cry, Emily said: 'I don't know why I'm getting upset I think I'm really tired. Sorry it's just so uncomfortable.'
Tough: The TV star, 33, was speaking in her documentary Emily Atack: Asking For It? as she admitted she felt to blame for the messages she is bombarded with on a daily basis by strangers via Instagram
Coming over to hug her daughter, Kate said: 'It's not your fault, don't blame yourself.'
Emily then reflected on her teen years, revealing that she got more drunk than others at parties and went off with boys.
She shared that she was scared of men and she adopted the behaviour as a coping mechanism, opening herself up to men and boys from an early age after having her first sexual experience with an 18-year-old when she was 12.
Emily has been exploring the inappropriate unsolicited sexual messages she receives from men and the fact that she blames herself for them.
Hugging it out: Emily wiped away tears as she told her mum Kate Robbins she finds it 'difficult' to talk about because of how it affects her and the people around her
Teens: Emily reflected on her teen years, revealing that she got more drunk than others at parties and went off with boys (pictured in her documentary Asking For It?
She said: 'What I really want to get out there is that that girl at school, we all know one, the girl who gets more drunk than everyone at a party and she's going off with all the boys, there's another story there.
Emily continued: 'She's not doing that because she wants to, because she likes sex and getting her boobs out, she feels that there is no other way to be at the moment and she's looking for something in all the wrong places.
'It's too easy to go 'slag' but you shouldn't have to search for those things when you're 13 years old. If you are, there's obviously some pain going on.
'I am speaking from experience, I have never been in so much pain than when I was behaving that way.'
Coping: She adopted the behaviour as a coping mechanism, opening herself up to men and boys from an early age after having her first sexual experience with an 18-year-old when she was 12
The star then revealed that she was treated a certain way by men and women afterwards.
She said that is why she thinks the messages she receives are her fault, adding: 'Men fire that at us
