TV and radio personality Abbie Chatfield has shared a horrifying side effect of fame after she was harassed and inappropriately touched by a stranger on a rare night out.
Chatfield posted a video to TikTok with the headline: “Can you please treat people in the public eye as human?” which has so far reached over 320,000 viewers who have hopefully heeded her advice.
In the video, Chatfield explains that she was out with workmates on Saturday night – a rare event because she does not like to go out due to being recognised by members of the public – and was having a lot of fun to begin with.
“I’m leaning over the table the DJ is playing on, shaking my arse to my friends, and this random stranger comes up and slaps my arse,” she says. “One of the people I work with, my friend, she kind of moved herself in front of this girl and was basically shooing her off in a subtle way.”
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A short time later, Chatfield explains, the girl returned to the group and asked Chatfield to dance with her, which she politely declined.
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“She’s just slapped my arse and she’s a stranger, so I go, ‘Oh, no thanks’,” Chatfield says.
“She then walks away, I turn around, and she’s doing this,” she says, giving the camera the finger.
Chatfield says she then confronted the woman, who immediately backed down and tearfully claimed not to know who the star – who has appeared on The Bachelor Australia, Bachelor in Paradise Australia, The Masked Singer Australia and I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here – was.
The girl’s friends then started recording the encounter, as Chatfield was admonishing the girl’s actions, on their phones.
“You cannot physically slap someone, ask them to dance, give them the finger, trying to impress your little friends, and then film me confronting you with your behaviour and play the victim,” Chatfield says. “It’s actually fucked. I’m so fucking sick of this.”
Chatfield says the experience proves that people have “no fucking boundaries” when it comes to people they perceive in the public eye, and said, “they really don’t see them as human beings.”
