Rosamund Pike Recalls Getting Punched, Robbed While On Phone With Her Mother
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Gone Girl star Rosamund Pike said that a "kid" came from behind on a speeding motorcycle and snatched her phone.
British actress Rosamund Pike has recalled a terrifying mugging incident when she got punched in the face and her mobile phone was snatched in London. The incident took place in 2006 when she was speaking to her mother on the phone.
The Gone Girl star said that a 'kid" came from behind on a speeding motorcycle and snatched the handset.
'I was on the phone to my mother, on a mobile phone walking along a road, and I was mugged," she told Magic Radio.
All that her mother Caroline Friend could hear was her screaming, 'a thud and the phone went dead," Pike said.
Rosamund Pike said her mother endured '15 minutes of hell" till the time she somehow managed to call her back from another phone.
While snatching the phone, the attacker even punched the actress hard. The incident left her with a bruise to the face. '…punched me down the side of my cheek and snatched my phone out of my hand. I'm angry," Pike recalled.
Post the incident, the actress reached a local phone booth to seek help. She did not further mention the situation on the radio, but highlighted that she became the victim of another alleged robbery the following year, according to Us magazine.
This incident took place at the 2007 BAFTA Awards when a thief stole her purse and handbag. She stated that the person remains unidentified till date.
'I had a fire in my apartment….and I was burgled the year before," said Pike and quipped that she has got used to owning things 'for a little while and then tending to part with them."
As per the Independent report, London has witnessed a shocking 151% jump in mobile phone snatching cases in the last year.
The criminals are often found to have used motorcycles or even mopeds to snatch the devices, while the victims were approached from behind when they were on phone calls or texting.
Earlier, Coronation Street fame actor Kym Marsh also opened up about a similar incident when her phone got snatched in London.
The 48-year-old was walking down Buckingham Palace Road at night when a person snatched her phone and left her feeling 'shaken" and 'really vulnerable".
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