Video: Joan Collins speaks on camera for the first time about being raped at 17

You remember Miss Collins from the TV series Dynasty don't you?

She played Alexis, a very evil, conniving and bi*chy character, but I still admired and loved her then and I still do but who ever knew this powerful woman was a victim of rape?!

Now, Joan Collins has spoken on camera for the first time about being raped by her future husband Maxwell Reed in a new documentary tackling sexual violence.

The 81-year-old actress, who has previously written about the ordeal in her autobiography, tells how she was drugged and raped at the age of 17 when she was still a virgin and explains how her guilt drove her to marry the perpetrator of the crime.

The emotional admission appears in Brave Miss World, a film which sees former Israeli Miss World, Linor Abargil, travel the globe meeting fellow victims. Linor was raped in 1998, six weeks before she was crowned Miss World and has made it her life's mission to encourage other women to speak out.

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