Helen Flanagan recounts unsettling encounter with man on the Tube

HELEN Flanagan has told how she was left feeling shaken and uncomfortable by a man who launched a foul-mouthed tirade at her on the Tube. The former Coronation Street star was left stunned when he accused her of having too much botox after she challenged him for abusing another woman on the underground.

Detailing the confrontation, Helen told fans in a video on social media: 'I was on the Tube and there was this man sat across from me, and there was this girl about my age, sat across, and I noticed that the man took a picture of this woman on the Tube. Anyway, I probably - it's a bit embarrassing for me to say this. I should have said something but I actually felt a bit intimidated by the man, so I just thought, I felt like I couldn't say anything. Anyway the woman next to me was braver than me and she just said, 'excuse me, did you take a picture of that woman? I just saw you take a picture of that woman.' And like, he just ignored her and pretended that he couldn't hear her. And then, eventually he was really aggressive, and like, told her to 'eff off' and 'shut the eff up', and oh my God it was awful.'

Helen then bravely stepped in to stand up for the woman - but it set her up to be abused by the stranger herself. She continued: 'So then obviously, like I'm a real like girl's girl and I just said, 'Don't effing speak to her like that. I saw you, you did take a picture of her. You're lying.' He was really awful and I actually felt really intimidated, and I felt like I couldn't say much to him because I did feel really intimidated by him. He said to me, it was like the weirdest thing he could have said, 'You've got so much Botox in your forehead', and I was sat there with an iced coffee, and he was like, 'I'm surprised you can even drink through a straw.'

Laughing it off, Helen said: 'To be fair, I am dead soft. I don't get in arguments with people. I was only sticking up for this girl because of course, I would always stick up for other women. I didn't know what to say, this sounds tight but like, he deserves it - he wasn't the most attractive of men. I couldn't say anything to him, so I said, 'I feel sorry for you'. It's not nice as a woman where you actually feel intimidated he was just an absolute idiot.'

According to the source: The Sun.