Penny Lancaster has revealed she suffered a sequence of sexual assaults from childhood into her teenage years.

The 54-year-old mannequin – who’s married to singer Sir Rod Stewart, 80 – has spoken for the primary time about her experiences in her memoir Somebody Like Me.

Free Ladies star Lancaster, whose e book is due out on the finish of September, advised the Each day Mail how repeated encounters with predatory males left her traumatised.

The publication experiences that her memoir ‘begins together with her fearing the sound of footsteps’ as when Lancaster was aged solely 5, a person tried to abduct her in his automobile as she performed in her backyard.

Her father later caught him and ‘taught that man a lesson he’d always remember’, Lancaster’s e book provides.

Aged 12, she claims she was assaulted in an underpass by a person who grabbed her from behind as she walked alone to high school.

Lancaster alleges she managed to interrupt free, and after police requested her to assist determine her attacker, they arrested the improper man. Consequently, the actual perpetrator was by no means apprehended.

She wrote that her ensuing trauma sparked hyperhidrosis, which makes her arms and toes drip with sweat when anxious.

Lancaster additional alleged she suffered a ‘terrifying’ sexual assault aged 17, initially of her modelling profession.

She claimed that whereas journeying to a fundraising occasion with an unnamed male designer, she was invited into his residence and handed a martini.

Lancaster then stated her subsequent reminiscence was waking up on a mattress in his bed room.

‘I had been drugged,’ she wrote. ‘I used to be mendacity face down with no underwear on and he was between my legs. I don’t know to today if I used to be raped.’

The Each day Mail experiences that in her memoir, Lancaster claims the person referred to as her to ask if he might purchase her a diamond necklace the next morning.

She stated that her memoir allowed her to ‘dissect and break all of it down’ when it got here to addressing her trauma.

‘You return to Penelope as a 12-year-old, the identical with the five- and 17-year-olds, and attempt to bear in mind what she was going via, maintain her hand,’ Lancaster stated.

She was additionally demeaned on Celeb MasterChef in 2021 by disgraced former decide Gregg Wallace.

‘I’m unsure that somebody like Gregg is even conscious of how his behaviour impacts folks round him; presumably he’s bought away with it for too lengthy.

‘And he’s a comparatively quick man, so, at first look, not an intimidating character. You’re placed on the again foot.’

In November, Lancaster’s husband, Sir Rod, hit out at Wallace, describing him as a ‘tubby, bald-headed bully’ after he humiliated his different half.

Lancaster had no concept the music icon was going to tear into Wallace by way of social media like he did. The presenter now not works for the BBC following an investigation into historic allegations of misconduct.

‘I feel my husband, when he heard folks speaking about his disturbing behaviour, he thought wanted to say one thing,’ she added on Free Ladies on the time.