GEORGIA Harrison has revealed all on her new ITV documentary – which explores the trauma of deep fake and revenge porn.
Georgia, 30, is fronting a two-part series with ITV, called Georgia Harrison: Porn, Power, Profit, where she looks into the issue of deepfakes and image-based sexual abuse.
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The 30-year-old former Love Island and The Only Way Is Essex star waived her right to anonymity during Stephen Bear’s trial[/caption]
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The reality star feels the areas she explores in the documentary are relatable because she was a victim of image-based sexual abuse herself.
Her former partner Stephen Bear was convicted of sharing a private film of them having sex and was jailed for 21 months in 2023.
The former Love Island and The Only Way Is Essex star waived her right to anonymity during Bear’s trial, and has been outspoken about the distress the ordeal has caused her.
But now Georgia hopes her new documentary will shed light on the industry and the impact it can have on victims.
Speaking to The Sun’s TV Mag about her most shocking discovery on the show, Georgia replied: ” Working on Deepfakes was the most shocking for me.
“Because of everything that’s happened to me, my inbox has become a real floodgate for victims of abuse, whether that be intimate, deepfake or domestic.
“I really just have so many women reaching out, and I was seeing a lot more deepfake, especially from parents.
“These girls, they’re going to school, and there’s these pictures going around of them, and they can’t prove it’s not them.
“What are they meant to do? Take their clothes off and show their schoolmates what their naked body looks like?
“So they’re being accused of being liars, and even if they manage to prove it’s not them, it puts a smear on their childhood, and it sexualizes them without their consent from such a young age.
“And I always thought deepfake was a traumatic thing.
“I’ve had friends that have experienced it, but since really being able to sit down with victims and not only see how it affects them.
“But see how much money it’s making for these people that don’t even put their faces to these companies.
“It’s completely and utterly blown me away, and I think it’s something that’s going to catch up on people quicker than they realise.
When you meet with another victim, you can really see and feel inside of them all of the feelings I felt with revenge porn.
Georgia Harrison
“Nobody is safe with their pictures online anymore, because anyone can take them and do whatever they want to them, and it doesn’t even cost a lot of money to ruin someone’s life.”
Georgia believes that because she’s gone through something similar it gives her a unique sense of empathy with the people she meets.
“I think that’s why it was so perfect for me to go down the route of doing this doc, because I have so much empathy for anyone that’s gone through something like this.
“And it’s mad when you meet with another victim, you can really see and feel inside of them all of the feelings I felt with revenge porn.
FIGHTING FOR CHANGE
“It’s just the same. They just feel so degraded. They feel like they’re a lesser person. And they’re just traumatised.
“And people aren’t just doing it to kids, they’re doing it to people’s parents, they’re doing it to teachers.
“It’s really an evil thing to be used and if it’s unconsented, which most of the time it is, it just shouldn’t be allowed.”
“And that’s why I really wanted to look into it too, because the more people talk about things, the more people understand things, the quicker we can change it, and the less victims there’ll be.
“I don’t want to live in a world where my little sister, my future children can be seen in a sexually vulnerable state, whether that’s real or fake.”
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
But was making the documentary a painful reminder for Georgia?
“It’s always really, really hard having to share my story, and I’m aware of that, and a lot of people say it’s brave, and I appreciate that.
“I’m a big believer that everything happens for a reason, I am such a spiritual person, and I think especially now, I’m in the best place I’ve ever been in my life.
“I’m just so happy at the moment, and sharing my story is a way of helping people.
Maybe for some reason, it was my purpose in this lifetime to have to go through some hardship to actually make it a much safer space for women in the future.”
Georgia Harrison
“I have so many people come up to me all the time saying they’re so grateful, because of me, they felt less ashamed, or they put someone in prison, or they stood up against someone who sexually violated them.
“Maybe for some reason, it was my purpose in this lifetime to have to go through some hardship to actually make it a much safer space for women in the future.”
The Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced plans to clampdown on AI-generated images of sexual abuse.
She said the UK would be the first country in the world to make it illegal to own artificial intelligence tools designed to make images of child sexual abuse.
The new offence will be punishable by up to five years in prison.
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Georgia Harrison: Porn, Power, Profit airs on Tuesday February 18 and Wednesday February 19 at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX.
