‘Game of Thrones’ Rescued This Actress From Prostitution

#1 The 27-year-old is in demand as a serious actress even though she had no professional training when she started the show.

‘Game Of Thrones saved me from a life of prostitution, and has made me a much stronger person,' she says.

#2

‘I was working as a whore and at the same time making X-rated movies, using the name Sophie O'Brien, when I saw an advert on a website for actresses in the film industry.

‘They were looking for young women with natural breasts and no tattoos, who didn't mind being filmed naked. So I immediately sent in a picture.

‘They wrote back that they wanted me and I was thrilled because it was an amazing opportunity to do some proper acting. But I had no idea how much it would change my life.'

Josephine suffered a childhood corrupted by sex abuse, alcohol and class-A drugs. She went to 24 different primary schools as her mother fled a violent relationship, and was taken into care at 12 and then fostered.

‘They put me in a household where I was groomed by a family friend, who gave me cannabis and alcohol when I was 12 and got me hooked on cocaine when I was 14. He raped me two years later and then pimped me out to his friends.

#3

‘I was too frightened to tell anyone because he threatened to bury me in the garden if I did. He said he'd done it before and I believed him,' she says.

Apparently people still ask her if the sex scenes are real on the show though.

‘People ask me all the time if we are at it for real and I reply, "Are dragons or zombies real?".

#4 ‘The reality is that the male actors are so uncomfortable doing sex scenes that I can usually feel them shaking nervously under me.

#5 ‘I think they suffer from performance anxiety, because they are almost naked and there are usually about 30 crew members on set.’

To date Gillan has appeared in series two, three, four, five and now six and has revealed she has already signed up for season seven.