Helen Mirren talks of her poor youth, drugs, love of the queen and even date rape
Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Hot Momma
Oscar-winning British actress Helen Mirren had some interesting things to say in the British edition of GQ, which goes on sale Thursday. Helen talked of her poor youth, drugs, love of the queen and even date rape.
Helen admits that she was date-raped a couple of times when she was younger. She said they never hit her, but she was locked in a room and forced to have sex. She never said “no,” because she was too naive back then. Helen also never reported the incidents to the police. She said, “No, you couldn’t do that in those days. It’s such a tricky area, isn’t it? Especially if there is no violence.
“I was pretty naive, I went to a convent school until I was 18, and had never spent a night away from home, or gone to parties, or any of that. “Times have changed. I hate young girls going around beating each other up, but I love the fierceness of young girls nowadays, and the way they just say, ‘f*** off’, because I wish I’d been taught to say ‘f*** off’ when I was younger.
“I wish I’d had those words in my arsenal of self-defence. Instead, I was polite and didn’t have the courage to say that to men who wouldn’t accept ‘no’ for an answer.
The 63-year-old, who won an Academy Award for her role in “The Queen,” came from a humble background and used to steal during what she described as a “very poor” youth.
“I needed to shoplift for food,” she reportedly said, adding that while she enjoyed “the accoutrements of movie star life” she still had frugal instincts, cutting her own hair and wearing dollar-store glasses.
She also revealed she used to dabble in drugs when she was younger.
“I loved coke. I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties. But what ended it for me was when they caught (Nazi war criminal) Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, in the early 80s. He was hiding in South America and living off the proceeds of being a cocaine baron.
“And I read that in the paper, and all the cards fell into place, and I saw how my little sniff of cocaine at a party had an absolute direct route to this … horrible man in South America.”
Mirren said she was not a royalist but had become a fan of Queen Elizabeth II since playing her in “The Queen.”
“It’s a miracle she’s never gone mad,” Mirren was quoted as saying. “She is a remarkable person, who has achieved an amazing thing with a life she neither chose for herself, nor particularly wanted.”
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