“Game of Thrones” star Natalie Dormer: No doctorate for Fergie series

The British actress Natalie Dormer (43) known from “Game of Thrones” played ex-wife Sarah Ferguson (65) in the drama series “The Lady” Prince Andrews (65). But even before the series produced by the television station ITV about Fergies, former employee Jane Andrews (embodied by Mia McKenna-Bruce, 28), Dormer has now declared not to want to advertise the project.

In a statement, from which, said Dormer on Friday: “Since the end of the project, new information has become known that make it impossible for me to reconcile my values ​​with the behavior of Sarah Ferguson, which I think is unexcused. For this reason, I will not participate in the advertising for the project.”

With the “new information” Dormer says an email Fergusons from 2011 about the a few days ago. Accordingly, Ferguson wrote a private email to Jeffrey Epstein (1953-2019) in April 2011, in which she described him as “steadfast, generous and sublime friend”. She apologized “humbly” to have previously associated him with pedophilia in the media and explained that she was “tied to bed with fear”.

This news was carried out after Epstein was sentenced to a prison sentence in 2008 because of the initiation of sexual contacts with a minor in Florida. In addition, Fergies had publicly distanced himself from Epstein in an interview with the “Evening Standard”. At the time, the reason was the unveiling that she had accepted £ 15,000 from him as an assistance to debt. At the time, Ferguson publicly apologized and called the step a “gigantic mistake in judgment”.

A spokesman for the Duchess justified that Epstein had threatened her with a lawsuit. “Her first thoughts apply to his victims. As soon as she was aware of the extent of the allegations, she broke the contact and publicly condemned him,” emphasized the spokesman.

“Game of Thrones” star Dormer further explained that she donated her “entire salary” of “The Lady” to organizations that support the victims of child abuse. The series “The Lady” tells the story of Jane Andrews, who came from modest conditions and made it to the royal cloakroom of the Duchess of York before being sentenced to her friend Thomas Cressman in 2001.