Veteran actor Dame Angela Lansbury has sparked outrage by claiming that women must sometimes “take blame” for sexual harassment and abuse since they “go out of their way to make themselves attractive”.
The 92-year-old former star of Murder She Wrote made the controversial comments during an interview with the Radio Times.
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