Natalie Dormer plays Sarah Ferguson – this becomes a problem for her

The role of the Margaery Tyrell in the successful series “Game of Thrones” made Natalie Dormer International and gave the British actress a lot of positive criticism. However, Dormer’s current project ensures negative headlines before it even appeared.

In the four-part series “The Lady”, 43-year-old Sarah Ferguson, ex-wife of the British prince Andrew. In the series produced for the British TV broadcaster ITV, Ferguson’s former dress lady Jane Andrews, who was sentenced to life in 2001 for murder in 2001.

However, this does not ensure a scandal, but Ferguson’s relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a statement, from which, said Natalie Dormer: “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 advertising for the project.”

With the “new information” Dormer says an email Fergusons from 2011, about which the first reported a few days ago. Accordingly, Ferguson wrote a private email to Jeffrey Epstein in April 2011, in which she described him as “steadfast, spacious and sublime friend”. She apologized “humble” to have previously associated him in the media with pedophilia.

Ferguson had previously 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. Ferguson apologized publicly and called the step a “gigantic mistake in judgment”. She “loathe pedophilia” and never wanted to have anything to do with Epstein again. But a little later, Ferguson is said to have apologized in a private email to Epstein for exactly these statements. The American was there Already in 2008 for the initiation of sexual contacts with a minor in Florida had been sentenced to a prison sentence.

A spokesman for Fergusons 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.

Dormer has now distanced itself from the project. She not only wants to do without all promo appearances, but has already donated her complete fee: at two facilities that are committed to victims of child abuse.