Emma Thompson has written a handbook about sex and emotion to guide her daughter through life after experiencing a horrific ordeal as a child in which she was allegedly molested by an elderly man.
The British actress has revealed she was targeted by an elderly magician at a birthday party when she was just eight years old, alleging he made a shocking sexual advance towards her.
"My parents brought him to the house for my party... He was an old man with grey hair. And he took me behind a door and said, 'Would you like a sweetie (sic)?'" she told Britain's Daily Mirror.
"I said, 'Oh yes please', but I had a funny feeling. He gave me the sweet and said, 'Will you give me a kiss?' And I said yes. So I went up to kiss him on the cheek and he planted his mouth on mine, stuck his tongue in my mouth and wiggled it about. I thought it was my fault, children always think it's their fault."
Thompson insists the experience encouraged her to write a handbook for her 13-year-old daughter Gaia to highlight the current sexual pressures youngsters face, which she believes have become much worse through social media.