Chenneour, who performed Clara Livingston in Season 3 of Netflix’s smash hit, fought again after having her telephone stolen from her on February 8 inside a Joe & the Juice café in London’s Kensington neighborhood.

The 27-year-old actress says she was threatened with being stabbed “a number of occasions” by one of many suspects throughout the incident, which was caught on digicam. Whereas showing on the British daytime present, This Morning, Chenneour detailed the terrifying second her telephone was stolen.

“I had a little bit of sixth sense that one thing wasn’t fairly proper. As a lady, you’ve got that form of instinct, and I may really feel individuals transferring round me another way, however I solely grew to become conscious of it when the incident had occurred and in hindsight,” Chenneour recalled.

Whereas Chenneour did not essentially suggest anybody else combating off potential attackers, particularly these threatening to stab them, the TV star mentioned her on-set combat coaching and rising up with brothers ready her for these harrowing jiffy.

“It simply was an intuition,” Chenneour admitted. “I do not know what came visiting me. I believed that was a traditional response, however then I learn all of the feedback and realized, really, lots of people would allow them to take the telephone.”

The combat went on for about 5 minutes and made its approach across the nook of the cafe, the place Chenneour was struggling with the thief, showing to hit him together with her telephone after she snatched it again. Whereas she was capable of wrestle her telephone out of his fingers, the actress ended up with a concussion and a deep concern of leaving the home.

“It grew to become a matter of — in my thoughts — a matter of life and dying,” she recounted. “So I did issues like, I bear in mind kicking him again with my leg to create house in case he had a weapon on him. It was a life-changing, loopy second.”

Chenneour continued, “I did not wish to go exterior. And as a lady, we have already got our wits about us round strangers and random males, so to have this occur to me — whereas coping with that base degree that numerous ladies have made me fairly agoraphobic. Leaving the home was actually laborious.”

The perpetrator, Zacariah Boulares, is not any stranger to this sort of violence, and has been seen on CCTV footage with a machete on different events. And at simply 16, he was convicted of threatening to behead Welsh singer Aled Jones throughout a Rolex theft and served 14 months of a 24-month sentence.

Whereas Boulares was later arrested and pleaded responsible, In an Instagram Tales submit detailing the incident, Chenneour mentioned a second man allegedly concerned will not be dealing with penalties. “The person that threatened to stab me won’t be going to courtroom and has been launched as a result of lack of proof,” she defined. “I do know karma will get him.”

She additionally thanked the staff on the café, writing, “I am so grateful to the workers at Joe & The Juice — they have been unbelievable throughout the incident and once I went again to see them after.”

“London has develop into more and more harmful, and this can’t be normalized,” Chenneour added, with former Chief Superintendent, Parm Sandhu telling This Morning that telephone thefts in London are up 150 %. “I am not simply talking for myself — I am talking for each one that’s had sufficient.”

Boulares might be sentenced on June 17 for the assault on Chenneour and one other buyer throughout the identical incident.