Actor sets ‘the record straight’ on Desert Island Discs over incident growing up in care that led her to spend three nights in cell
The English
Actress Samantha Morton, star of the hit television series Harlots and The Walking Dead, has publicly apologised for threatening the life of a young girl with a knife when she was 14.
Morton, 43, said she wanted to “set the record straight a little bit” on
BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. The Oscar-nominated star was “incredibly sorry” about the incident, which led to her being charged with attempted murder and spending three days in solitary confinement in an adult cell block. She was convicted of threats to kill after she had confronted an older girl who had been bullying at the care home where they both lived.