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Jenny Evans talks to Samira Ahmed

Don’t Let it Break You, Honey

Hay Festival 2026, 

Jenny Evans shares how she took on the establishment to fight for justice in this compelling conversation with BBC broadcaster Samira Ahmed. Cast in a cult film at the age of 18, Evans was on the cusp of something extraordinary; a future of promise. But the new world she was exploring crumbled around her when she was assaulted at a party by a high-profile figure.

Evans reported this crime to the police, but shortly after, details of her report were printed in a tabloid. To find out how this happened, she trained as a journalist herself, fighting back against the systems that caused her harm, and helping expose the phone-hacking scandal. Evans, now training as a lawyer, speaks about her fight for justice in a system that so horrifically fails its victims. Her book Don’t Let it Break You, Honey is an engrossing account of power – who holds it, who wields it, who is silenced in the process.