The woman at the centre of HBO and Sky’s Chernobyl drama, Lyudmila Ignatenko, has claimed she never gave permission for her story to be told and has detailed the abuse she received after the show aired.
Lyudmila was the wife of Vasily, one of the first firefighters to die from radiation poisoning in the nuclear disaster.
Lyudmila was pregnant with Vasily’s child when the explosion happened at the nuclear power plant in 1986.
“When I found out there would be a film about me, I felt hurt and uneasy,” Lyudmila told the BBC. “There were people hounding me at my flat.