Noel Clarke instructed an actor that he saved express pictures of girls he had intercourse with to make use of as “collateral” in case they ever needed to talk out about him or inform his spouse, the excessive court docket has heard.
Clarke, 49, is suing the Guardian over publications from 2021-22 accusing him of sexual misconduct, primarily based on allegations from greater than 20 girls.
Johannah Whyte, an actor and digital content material creator, whose stage identify is Jahannah James, mentioned Clarke was like a “large brother” to her who helped her early in her profession however that she felt “violated” and “betrayed” when she came upon in 2017 that he had filmed her nude audition for the movie Legacy, greater than 4 years earlier.
In her witness assertion, she additionally recounted a dialog with Clarke from 2016 when she mentioned he instructed her that he had slept together with her buddy Ivy (not her actual identify), who gave proof on Friday.
“I mentioned I didn’t consider him and instructed him he mustn’t say that about my buddy,” Whyte mentioned. “He instructed me he may show it as a result of he saved a tough drive of pictures and each time he slept with somebody he would get them to take a photograph of their vagina to make use of as ‘collateral’, in case they ever needed to talk about him or attempt to inform his spouse, and he mentioned he would reserve it and preserve it.”
Whyte mentioned she came upon that Clarke had the nude video of her by way of her buddy Gina Powell, who had labored for him at Unstoppable Productions, and mentioned it left her “devastated” and “disgusted” given her earlier shut friendship with him.
Philip Williams, who’s representing Clarke, claimed Whyte had labored with Powell to concoct the allegations due to the latter’s “monetary grudge” in opposition to Clarke after leaving his firm on dangerous phrases. The barrister mentioned his consumer denied the existence of the video and requested Whyte if she had ever seen it. Whyte replied that she had not, however added: “I’ve had it described to me precisely.”
Williams additionally requested Whyte about her communications with Clarke, together with inviting him to her play, suggesting it “didn’t add up” if she believed he had a unadorned video of her. “I didn’t need him to know that I knew,” replied Whyte.
One other witness, Naome Morris, instructed the court docket that she was a “starstruck” 18-year-old virgin with agoraphobia and selective mutism, an anxiousness dysfunction, when she responded to a request from the Physician Who actor on X for “naughty or cheeky” photos.
Giving proof from behind a display, Morris mentioned she initially messaged him saying “I’ll” however was shocked when she realised he truly needed nude photographs and later started asking if they may have intercourse.
After she despatched pictures requested by him he then urged she may come to London for a movie screening and hinted they may have intercourse, the court docket heard. Morris mentioned she instructed him about her experiences with bullying and absence from college and a time period during which she had self-harmed.
In her witness assertion she mentioned that Clarke subsequently requested her: “How about me being first to fill you while you hit London?”
Morris instructed the court docket she felt “anxious” on the prospect as she “wasn’t prepared”.
She mentioned: “I used to be simply having fun with the eye of an actor from Physician Who … I felt like I needed to impress him and never let him down, that he was placing quite a lot of effort into speaking to me and making out he can be the right particular person to be my first [sexual partner].”
She didn’t attend the London screening however met him in Could 2010 when he was in Birmingham for promotional occasions.
“He grabbed my leg below the desk and squeezed my thigh – he put his palms in-between my legs in a sexual means,” Morris mentioned in her assertion, including that she “froze up” in response as she was “completely inexperienced”.
Williams mentioned that his consumer had been “sympathetic” in the direction of Morris however she had been upset when he had not had intercourse together with her and he or she had “stalked” him, threatening to unfold rumours about him. Morris denied stalking him or that she needed to have intercourse with him and mentioned she felt offended on the means she had been handled by Clarke.
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