A BRITISH glamour model has moved thousands of miles to Australia after a “horrific” stalking ordeal left her with PTSD.
Fenella Fox says she was scared to leave her home for three years due to anxiety, and fled Down Under earlier this year.
Fenella Fox says she was scared to leave her home for three years[/caption]
The 31-year-old, originally from Hereford, was one of multiple victims of Callum Blake-O’Brien, who she met on a night out.
No relationship developed but she said his harassment got worse when he realised she was an OnlyFans creator.
“I met him in a bar one night, and then he decided to stalk me,” she told The Sun.
“As soon as he found out about my job, it was just a bit of fun, like ‘jackpot.’”
She went on to say: “He sent long, very descriptive horrific messages to me repeatedly through Facebook, which I unfortunately gained PTSD from.
“I wasn’t comfortable living in Hereford after that and travelled a lot, eventually leading to me moving to Australia where I feel safer.”
She continued: “His messages were personalised, mentioning things about me I had shared on social media and they each described how he would rape and torture me.
“Police didn’t take it seriously at first but eventually realised how serious it was when other women came forward with similar threats, some much worse than mine.”
Blake-O’Brien created numerous fake social media accounts to send women what prosecutors described as “unimaginably horrendous” messages, reports the BBC.
He knew some of his victims and was acquainted with others. One was just 17.
He messaged the teenager out of the blue one night, with the content so disturbing she was left “freaked out” and showed her parents before reporting him to police, Worcester Crown Court heard.
Blake-O’Brien, then 25, admitted counts against 10 women and was given a jail sentence of two-and-a-half years in 2018.
Seven offences were of stalking involving the fear of violence, while three involved sending an electronic communication of an indecent or grossly offensive nature.
Fenella has been an OnlyFans creator for five years and in the online sex industry for 13 years.
TIP OF THE ICEBERG
She said Blake-O’Brien’s harassment of her was just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to creeps.
“I would go out sometimes, and people would expect me, because of my job, to sleep with them, to go home with them and there were occasions where guys would corner me,” she said.
“It would be really intimidating, or like they’d follow me home thinking that I’d have sex with them. It’s so strange.”
She said it’s actually quite the opposite, with many such creators suffering from social anxiety and not even sexually active.
“I’ve just recently got a boyfriend, so it’s changed for me. But if I disregard that I’ve only had sex like twice in the last 10 years,” she explained.
“There’s some creators that are completely asexual, and they’re just doing it for the money.”
Her experiences with the likes of Blake-O’Brien – who was jailed for two-and-a-half years in 2018 – led to her fearing leaving her home.
“For about three years I had severe agoraphobia,” Fenella explained.
“I was afraid to leave my house, and I’’d get everything I needed delivered. If I went to the supermarket I’d drive like an hour away and go to somewhere a bit further.”
I was left in a wheelchair and developed terrifying symptoms from using my PHONE too much
BY JACOB JAFFA
A MODEL was left with terrifying symptoms and in need of a wheelchair from using her phone too much.
Fenella Fox said that scrolling through her iPhone and iPad for up to 14 hours a day while running her OnlyFans account left her bed bound and unable to walk.
Fenella, 29, from Worcester, Worcestershire, developed severe vertigo from over-using her devices.
After some initial aches in her head and neck, which often forced her to lie down to ease the pain, her condition declined after moving to Portugal, before peaking in November 2021.
She said: “I started to get dizzy. I remember walking back after getting my groceries one time and I just thought it was sunstroke or something, I just didn’t feel okay.
“I had to sit down on the side of the road on this tiny patch of shade thinking I’ve got to push through this.
“It just felt like I really couldn’t walk properly, I felt really unwell. Dizzy, and kind of distorted. I can visualise it but it’s not easy to explain.”
Fenella even had to rush home while seeing a friend because he symptoms came on so suddenly.
However, she was baffled as to what was causing the issue.
She explained: “I’m in bed, I’m scrolling from wake until sleep. What I don’t know is at that point I’m making myself worse.
“I didn’t know it was my phone causing it, I thought I’d picked up a bug – was it Covid?”
The young model had to move back to the UK and live with her parents because she was unable to look after herself.
She recalled that she was unable to shower or cook for herself and even had to use a wheelchair during the six-month ordeal.
Read the full story here.
As well as Hereford, she also lived in Worcester, Manchester and Portugal for periods of time.
In Brisbane, the model says she only works on average for 10 minutes a day and is currently earning $7,000 a month off her 700 subscribers.
Fenella went viral for having unshaven armpit hair – and she said the decision to remain ungroomed polarised people, leading to more trolling.
“There were so many men commenting…things like ‘this is disgusting,’” she explained.
“‘You shouldn’t be allowed to do this, and ‘you should be covering up’. ‘You should be clean’. ‘You should be shaved’.
“There was a lot of outrage towards my armpit hair originally at the beginning,” she continued.
“I didn’t really get hate so much before the hair. It mostly gets triggered by the armpit hair.”
LESS SEXUALISED
Fenella went on to say: “I moved to Australia six months ago, and a big part of why I moved here is actually because I do feel safer here and I find my body to be less sexualised over here,” Fenella continued.
“I think that is because of the beach culture, so many people are wearing bikinis and sundresses.
“It’s so normal to see women’s bodies in tiny, tiny clothing, and the same with men wearing tiny pants to the beach, not like the British with the long shorts.”
She added: “I feel like everyone is a bit less sexualised over here.”
Fenella – who was earning around $23,000 a month when more active – has blocked access to her OnlyFans account for users in Australia.
“I just decided, I’m gonna try not to have an Australian fan base,” she said.
Fenella suffers with PTSD due to the ordeal[/caption]
Fenella feared leaving her home for three years[/caption]
How you can get help
Women’s Aid has this advice for victims and their families:
- Always keep your phone nearby.
- Get in touch with charities for help, including the Women’s Aid live chat helpline and services such as SupportLine.
- If you are in danger, call 999.
- Familiarise yourself with the Silent Solution, reporting abuse without speaking down the phone, instead dialing “55”.
- Always keep some money on you, including change for a pay phone or bus fare.
- If you suspect your partner is about to attack you, try to go to a lower-risk area of the house – for example, where there is a way out and access to a telephone.
- Avoid the kitchen and garage, where there are likely to be knives or other weapons. Avoid rooms where you might become trapped, such as the bathroom, or where you might be shut into a cupboard or other small space.
If you are a victim of domestic abuse, SupportLine is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 6pm to 8pm on 01708 765200. The charity’s email support service is open weekdays and weekends during the crisis – messageinfo@supportline.org.uk.
Women’s Aid provides a live chat service – available weekdays from 8am-6pm and weekends 10am-6pm.
You can also call the freephone 24-hour National Domestic Abuse Helpline on 0808 2000 247.
