Ex-Corrie star Melissa Johns responds to sex tape leak: 'Disabled bodies can be beautiful'
Melissa Johns joined Corrie in 2017 (Picture: ITV)

Former Coronation Street star Melissa Johns has defiantly stood by her leaked sex tape, admitting that she is ‘proud’ of her body and that the leak shows ‘that women with all different types of body shapes and sizes have sex lives’.

‘As a vocal champion of women being totally at one with their bodies and not being ashamed of them, I am not about to turn around now and go back on my own principals,’ she said following the leak of the tape.

‘I am proud of my body. It is beautiful. And I am entitled to enjoy it and to have a personal and a romantic life just as all women – of all different body shapes and sizes – are entitled to do.

‘If any good has come out of this, it is to show that women with all different types of body shapes and sizes send photos, have sex lives, engage in intimate exchanges in the same way as everybody else. My body is unique, beautiful, and representative of what is still a very under-represented demographic of people in our society today.’

Ex-Corrie star Melissa Johns responds to sex tape leak: 'Disabled bodies can be beautiful'
Melissa Johns was a guest character on the ITV soap (centre)

Melissa was born without her right arm or forearm and joined the soap in July 2017; the tape featured her and her long-term partner Mat Swain engaging in an intimate act and was published by hackers on Saturday.

Melissa’s Corrie co-star Faye Brooke, 30, also had explicit images leaked.

Speaking to the Mail Online, Melissa went on to say that she hoped that the leak of the images would go ‘some way to dismantling discrimination, and showing that disabled bodies can be beautiful and even sexual’.

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Melissa is a known campaigner for disabled actors and her professional casting page includes a statement from her which reads: ‘I, like many disabled actors, are continuously fighting to change the way disability is seen in this industry.

‘For me, having a disability has never been a disadvantage. Unless I’m trying to cut steak or tie up my hair. For me it’s about experiencing situations differently to people without disabilities and therefore having a different take on the world.’

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