UK sex worker flees to Australia after ‘horrific’ stalking ordeal
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A British adult content creator has moved thousands of kilometres to Australia after a “horrific” stalking ordeal left her with PTSD.
Fenella Fox said she developed anxiety after being relentlessly stalked online for three years, eventually deciding to flee more than 16,500 kms to Brisbane earlier this year.
The 31-year-old, originally from Hereford, an English town about three hours west of London, was one of multiple victims of Callum Blake-O’Brien, who she met on a night out.
No relationship developed but she said his harassment got worse when he realised she was an OnlyFans creator.
“I met him in a bar one night, and then he decided to stalk me,” she told The Sun.
“As soon as he found out about my job, it was like ‘jackpot’.”
“He sent long, very descriptive horrific messages to me repeatedly through Facebook, which I unfortunately gained PTSD from,” she added.
“I wasn’t comfortable living in Hereford after that and travelled a lot, eventually leading to me moving to Australia where I feel safer.”
“His messages were personalised, mentioning things about me I had shared on social media and they each described how he would rape and torture me,” she continued.
“Police didn’t take it seriously at first but eventually realised how serious it was when other women came forward with similar threats, some much worse than mine.”
Blake-O’Brien created numerous fake social media accounts to send women what prosecutors described as “unimaginably horrendous” messages, reports the BBC.
He knew some of his victims and was acquainted with others. One was just 17.
He messaged the teenager out of the blue one night, with the content so disturbing she was left “freaked out” and showed her parents before reporting him to police, Worcester Crown Court heard.
Blake-O’Brien, then 25, admitted counts against 10 women and was given a jail sentence of two-and-a-half years in 2018.
Seven offences were of stalking involving the fear of violence, while three involved sending an electronic communication of an indecent or grossly offensive nature.
Tip of the iceberg
Ms Fox has been selling explicit content on a popular adult subscription site creator for five years and in the online sex industry for 13 years.
She said Blake-O’Brien’s harassment of her was just the tip of the iceberg.
“I would go out sometimes, and people would expect me, because of my job, to sleep with them, to go home with them and there were occasions where guys would corner me,” she said.
“It would be really intimidating, or like they’d follow me home thinking that I’d have sex with them. It’s so strange.”
She said it’s actually quite the opposite, with many such creators suffering from social anxiety and not even sexually active.
“I’ve just recently got a boyfriend, so it’s changed for me. But if I disregard that I’ve only had sex like twice in the last 10 years,” she explained.
“There’s some creators that are completely asexual, and they’re just doing it for the money.”
Her experiences with the likes of Blake-O’Brien, who was jailed for two-and-a-half years in 2018, left her fearing leaving her home.
“For about three years I had severe agoraphobia,” Ms Fox explained.
“I was afraid to leave my house, and I'd get everything I needed delivered. If I went to the supermarket I’d drive like an hour away and go to somewhere a bit further.”
As well as Hereford, she also lived in different cities around the UK and even moved to Portugal for periods of time in a bid to escape the stalking.
In Brisbane, the model says she only works on average for 10 minutes a day and is currently earning $7000 a month off her 700 subscribers, The Sun added.
Ms Fox went viral for having unshaven armpit hair – and she said the decision to remain ungroomed polarised people, leading to more trolling.
“There were so many men commenting...things like ‘this is disgusting,’” she explained.
“‘You shouldn’t be allowed to do this, and ‘you should be covering up’. ‘You should be clean’. ‘You should be shaved’.
“There was a lot of outrage towards my armpit hair originally at the beginning,” she continued.
“I didn’t really get hate so much before the hair. It mostly gets triggered by the armpit hair.”
Less sexualised.
“I moved to Australia six months ago, and a big part of why I moved here is actually because I do feel safer here and I find my body to be less sexualised over here,” Ms Fox continued.
“I think that is because of the beach culture, so many people are wearing bikinis and sundresses.
“It’s so normal to see women’s bodies in tiny, tiny clothing, and the same with men wearing tiny pants to the beach, not like the British with the long shorts.”
She added: “I feel like everyone is a bit less sexualised over here.”
Ms Fox – who was earning around $23,000 a month when more active – has blocked access to her OnlyFans account for users in Australia. “I just decided, I’m going to try not to have an Australian fan base,” she said.
This article originally appeared on the The Sun and was reproduced with permission.
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