Emily Atack has claimed her party trick is so ‘horrendous’, she thinks it’s ‘worse than a one night stand’.
The Inbetweeners star, 34, said her biggest embarrassment is drunkenly belting out songs on nights out, leaving her severely ‘ashamed’ the next morning.
Speaking on Jamie Laing’s Great Company podcast, Emily said she even has to ban friends from using their phones in case they film her singing.
While adding she is a good singer, Emily said she always regrets belting out tunes when she’s had too much to drink.
She said: ‘I had a dinner party recently and we all ended up singing round the piano.
Emily Atack, 34, has claimed her party trick is so ‘horrendous’, she thinks it’s ‘worse than a one night stand’
The Inbetweeners star said her biggest embarrassment is drunkenly belting out songs on nights out, leaving her severely ‘ashamed’ the next morning
‘And it’s one of those things, I always end up full top-of-my-lungs f****** singing. I love singing. I’m a good singer. It’s a little party trick of mine.
‘But the next day after I do a bit of a singing session round the piano, and I’ve been pissed, the embarrassment – I may as well have woken up and had a one night stand. That’s how I feel.
‘I feel so embarrassed. And I know at the time when I’m really going for it that it’s going to make me feel horrendous the next day.’
She added: ‘I sing everything, it’s the Celines, it’s Whitney.
‘I always say to everyone when I’m always pissed, “phones away”, because I know it’s going to sound really s*** on the phone.’
She added: ‘I said to Al my partner – I looked at him the other day when I woke up – “Oh my God, oh no, oh no”.
‘He was like “What’s happened?”
‘I said “I was singing last night, wasn’t I?”.’
Speaking on Jamie Laing ‘s Great Company podcast, Emily said she even has to ban friends from using their phones in case they film her singing
While adding she is a good singer, Emily said she always regrets belting out tunes when she’s had too much to drink
She said: ‘I had a dinner party recently and we all ended up singing round the piano. ‘And it’s one of those things, I always end up full top-of-my-lungs f****** singing. I love singing. I’m a good singer. It’s a little party trick of mine’
‘But the next day after I do a bit of a singing session round the piano, and I’ve been pissed, the embarrassment – I may as well have woken up and had a one night stand. That’s how I feel’, she added
During the podcast, Emily also opened up about her ‘uncomfortable’ sexual experiences, reflecting on drunken encounters that she views as rape.
She weighed in on the subject of consent as she revealed she’s fronting an ‘affirmative consent’ campaign, which seeks to change the law so that ‘the two parties that are involved in the sexual act have to confirm that they want to go ahead with it’.
Emily explained that she could count on one hand the times she’s enjoyed sex and that there were many occasions she couldn’t remember sleeping with someone.
She explained that she had been reflecting on past encounters that she now views in a different light because women are conditioned to ‘repress’ their feelings about sex and believe that having sex while too drunk to consent is ‘normal’.
Emily shared: ‘My situations have only been uncomfortable – yeah, literally. Honestly, I can only count on one hand probably where I’ve actually enjoyed sex.
‘Growing up, I’m sorry, as a teenager it was awful. There were no barriers, there were no boundaries. Boys didn’t know how to be with girls, girls didn’t know how to deal with those situations. It was a mess.’
Emily continued: ‘I went through life thinking if you wake up after a night out and something has happened but you don’t really remember it, you just have to suck it up and get on with it.
‘It’s like there’s no way anyone’s going to….it’s just not worth going down that road of ‘but I don’t remember, I don’t remember any of that’.
During the podcast, Emily also opened up about her ‘uncomfortable’ sexual experiences, reflecting on drunken encounters that she views as rape
She weighed in on the subject of consent as she revealed she’s fronting an ‘affirmative consent’ campaign
‘Yeah, awful, I’ve woken up so many times and been like “I definitely didn’t say yes to that’.’
The actress, who stars in the new Disney+ adaptation of Dame Jilly Cooper’s Rivals, added that men are ‘getting away’ with having sex with drunk women.
Asked if any of her sexual experiences made her feel shameful, upset, or angry, she said: ‘Yeah, you do, but it’s been so repressed for so long, we were taught for such a long time that that was kind of a normal way to have sex – that you wake up after a party and go “Ooh, Jesus Christ, I don’t really remember that, anyway.” And then you just kind of carry on.
‘We’re taught that that was like normal.
‘The problem is now, now we’re all having the conversation more, people are coming out and going “Oh right, well, I was raped then.” And it’s very difficult to have to admit it to you.
‘But also the reason why it’s difficult as well for the men, men are getting angry because they’re scared, because so many men will listen to this sort of thing and go “I’ve done that before”.
‘There’ll be men that are getting their kids uniform ready for school and they will listen to something like this and stop in their tracks and go “Oh f**k, I’ve done that before.”
‘And they probably regret it and feel really terrible about it, but to be told now that that was wrong, and that actually that’s now seen as rape, that’s hard for people to digest because they know that they’ve done that somewhere in their lives a lot of people, loads of people.
During a discussion on Jamie Laing’s (right) Great Company podcast she explained that she could count on one hand the times she’s enjoyed sex
In June this year, Emily welcomed her first child, son Barney, with scientist Alistair Garner, who she grew up with and has known for over 30 years
‘That’s why it’s so difficult to go there.’
Emily has fronted a campaign created by CPB London calling for a change in the laws on rape and sexual assault
The petition, which reached 10,000 signatures in five days, reads: ‘Current laws on rape and sexual assault allow “implied consent” and considers the perpetrator’s “reasonable beliefs”.
‘An affirmative consent model addresses these points by requiring explicit agreement at every stage of the interaction, preventing misunderstandings. The Sexual Offences Act is 20 years old.
‘We believe the consent model should be re-evaluated in light of international change and to better protect survivors in court, shifting focus from an absence of ‘no’ to the presence of ‘yes’.’
Anyone aged 16+ in England and Wales who has been affected by rape, child sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment or any other form of sexual violence can contact Rape Crisis.
Call 0808 500 2222 or visit their Support Line website to start an online chat.
