'To make someone do something like that, they’re going to have a way worse life than I am because they’ve got to be living with that and probably whatever made them do it is so rotten.’

Path to forgiveness

Does she forgive him, then? ‘No! I don’t forgive him. I forgive myself.’ She says she couldn’t allow herself to feel guilt about whether he might do it to someone else because, quite rightly, ‘I am not responsible for him. I have to take responsibility for what happened to me but I don’t blame myself.

I never blame myself. I made a choice. I could have not gone home with him. I made a choice, but I forgive myself for that choice. That was what happened.

'I don’t want to be a poster woman for rape. I don’t want this book to be about this. It’s not. It’s about how you control your mind to get over these bad things and how I did it.’

She hopes, though, that writing about her eating disorders will help others suffering from them. In the book she writes that she would currently describe herself as a ‘borderline bulimic’. I tell her I admire her honesty.