turned violent in west London. The 27-year-old was attacked in a café in February after she confronted a man who had taken her phone. Speaking to the BBC for the first time about the assault, which left her concussed and traumatized, the actress said it had caused her to move out of the capital to live with her mother. "I no longer feel safe calling west London home as a single woman," she said.

Last month, Zacariah Boulares, 18, was sentenced to 22 months in jail for common assault and three counts of theft. Chenneour, who played Clara Livingston in season three of Bridgerton, had been meeting her ex-boyfriend at Joe & The Juice on Kensington High Street when her phone was taken from a table. CCTV footage shows her then grabbing the thief in a bid to get her phone back, after which the altercation quickly escalated into what she described as a "full-on fight between four people for about five minutes".

"I was just facing forward at the back of a café, so there shouldn't really have been anything going on behind me," Chenneour told BBC News. "I thought it was a moment to kind of relax. I put my phone down next to me, and the next thing I knew... it felt like a darkness came over me." Chennoeur said that she sensed something was wrong before realising her phone was missing. When she turned, she saw a man in a black hoodie standing directly in front of her. Chenneour said she "very quickly asked for my phone back" but Boulares refused.

"Luckily, I had my ex there. So I made the first move of grabbing him to get the phone and then I pushed him by his chest or neck to create some distance," she said. Chenneour and her ex-boyfriend tried to stop the man from fleeing, but the situation intensified when another man entered the cafe. "They threatened stabbing me. It escalated. I didn't know what to do because if you get off them and you're fighting, is that an opportunity for them to stab you?" She said she briefly blacked out during the confrontation. (BBC/ Getty Images)