‘Some of those interactions were scary,’ said comedian. Katherine Ryan has reflected on feeling unsafe in her early career when she noticed that “very strange lone-wolf men” audience members would follow her after shows. The Canadian comedian and actor rose to fame on British panel shows like 8 Out of 10 Cats, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, and Mock the Week, before appearing in her own Netflix series The Duchess.
In a new interview, Ryan reflected on travelling home after shows during her early career, and noticing that some audience members were following her. “When I started doing television, male audience members could be weird with me. I had this following of very strange lone-wolf men,” she told Good Housekeeping for its forthcoming February issue.
“Before I had a tour manager, they’d follow me on to the train and keep talking to me,” she said. “I was trying to be polite and create a boundary, but some of those interactions were scary.”. Ryan is often outspoken about topics surrounding women’s safety and violence against women.
The comedian previously expressed disgust over how her teenage daughter was routinely sexually harassed by much older men on a day out in London, calling a man who had filmed her daughter on the tube a “sick freak”. Speaking on her podcast Telling Everybody Everything, Ryan told listeners she was “p***ed off” because her daughter Violet and her cousin Lily had been sexually harassed “everywhere they went” in London.
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