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

The 54-year-old model – who is married to singer Sir Rod Stewart, 80 – has spoken for the first time about her experiences in her memoir Someone Like Me.

Loose Women star Lancaster, whose book is due out at the end of September, told the Daily Mail how repeated encounters with predatory men left her traumatised.

The publication reports that her memoir ‘starts with her fearing the sound of footsteps’ as when Lancaster was aged only five, a man tried to abduct her in his car as she played in her garden.

Her father later caught him and ‘taught that guy a lesson he’d never forget’, Lancaster’s book adds.

Aged 12, she claims she was assaulted in an underpass by a man who grabbed her

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