Amber Rudd Quotes

I have had death threats from people with fixations.

I've been stalked.

I had to deal with several stalkers and a lot of strange letters.

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.

I do have some viewers who know where I live, and they'll stand outside.

One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.

Stalking is a serious crime with serious consequences.

My husband had a stalker, briefly.

Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.

I would never commit acts of domestic or family violence, stalking or sex offenses against Vince Russo or his household members or any other kind of member that he might have hanging around. Never would I do such a thing. I swear to that.

What is clear is that stalking can happen to anyone. Doctors are targeted by patients, people in the public eye are watched by obsessed fans, and ex-wives are followed by former husbands.

You do get your stalkers and obsessives though, and it's a huge problem sometimes. When I lived in Jersey, I used to have a middle-aged lady who, when I'd wake in the middle of the night, I'd see her van parked outside.

There's some weirdos out there, a few stalker fans out there, but nothing I can't handle. People are just going out of their way to hunt down information and get a hold of me. People call obsessively or things like that.

Stalking can have devastating consequences, and I am determined that we do all we can to protect victims from these prolonged and terrifying campaigns of abuse that can last years, leaving many people too afraid to leave their homes and unable to get on with their lives.

I am a big believer in early intervention.

Facial recognition, completely unmonitored, can be used for very bad things. It can be used for stalking, for example.

You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.

I knew Tim Pastoor. I knew Sherry Ford. I knew many of the individuals who would follow me around. I knew who they were. I knew they had access to my email.

When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed.

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?