By Sophie Law For Mailonline. A woman who appeared in a Louis Theroux BBC documentary about sex workers claims she was 'mistreated' and 'manipulated' during filming. Ashleigh Williams, 23, who is an escort and makes adult webcam videos, was one of the women who appeared in Louis Theroux : Selling Sex, which aired on BBC2 in January.
Writing in an article for Gal-dem magazine , Miss Williams, of south-west London, explains she was told the documentary would 'challenge stereotypes about sex workers' but was felt 'deeply unhappy' after the experience.
On set, I felt far from comfortable. Ashleigh Williams pictured with Theroux , 23, who is an escort and makes adult webcam videos, was one of the women who appeared in Louis Theroux: Selling Sex, which aired in January. She has written an article in which she claims she was 'mistreated' and 'manipulated'.
In the article Miss Williams levels a number of criticisms against the team, including that they decided to air a segment in which she discusses childhood sexual abuse, despite her pleas for it to be removed.
Miss Williams has been diagnosed with Aspergers, amongst other mental and physical ailments, is mixed British-Caribbean, and describes herself as working class, gay, an abuse survivor and 'still working through addiction recovery and completing an MA'. However she says 'many aspects of her identity' were not respected. She claims she had to 'fight' for the show to even mention her autism, which was later added as a voice-over. Miss Williams also claims the team refused to listen to her pleas to remove a section in which she reveals she was the victim of childhood abuse.
