Below Deck star, Hannah Ferrier has revealed that she was sexually assaulted while working on a superyacht.
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During a discussion on the KIISFM radio show Will and Woody, the reality star told the hosts about the horrifying event.
“I had a very bad situation where I was physically assaulted on a boat and I left…” she said.
“And the crazy thing, it was actually one of the working girls that kind of saved me in the situation I was in. She kind of came down the stairs, saw what was happening, and got him, like, off me.”
Ferrier said that the man wasn’t reprimanded for his actions, simply because he was a billionaire. “Um, you wouldn’t call the police on this guy…” She added.
Ferrier was one of the breakout stars of the hit TV show Below Deck and starred for five seasons before she was fired by Captain Sandy for bringing undeclared prescription drugs on board. Ferrier hung up her stripes in 2020 and had her first baby, Ava Grace Robert, with now-husband Josh Roberts in October of the same year.
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The 35-year-old was asked by the hosts whether charter guests fraternise with the yacht staff often, to which she seemed to confirm, “on a yacht…you would have, just basically, anything you wanted, whenever you wanted.”
“There’s lots of talk in our industry about that sort of stuff because, you know, I think when people get that rich…,” she said.
“Like, I’ve been propositioned a lot, but at the end of the day, I’m there just doing a job. I’m not there for that.”
The ex-chief stew revealed that some crimes – including sexually related crimes – can occasionally be unpunishable if they take place on international waters.
“…If it’s a privately owned yacht because it works under international waters, you can go to the Captain, and it’s basically like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry that happened to you but, like, there’s the gangway. See you later.’
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