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"And I was looking for love and for someone who just liked me, made me laugh and was nice to me. And instead I just met all these creeps."

She said of her own experiences: "I was (date-raped), yes. A couple of times.

"Not with excessive violence, or being hit, but rather being locked in a room and made to have sex against my will."

Former heavyweight champion Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison in 1992 for raping a Miss Black America beauty contestant in an Indiana hotel room.

In the same interview, with GQ columnist and former Mirror editor Piers Morgan, Mirren also admits that she used to "love" cocaine.

The actress, who won the movie award last year for her role as the Queen, revealed that she took the addictive drug until the early 1980s, when she would have been in her late 30s.

Dame Helen, 63, only quit after the Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was snared, and found to be making money from the Class A drug.

Asked whether she had ever taken any illegal substances, the star, who became a household name as Prime Suspect's DCI Jane Tennison, told GQ magazine: "A bit of dope when I was younger."

On whether she had taken anything else, she added: "A bit of cocaine. I loved coke. I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties.

"But what ended it for me was when they caught (Nazi war criminal) Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, in the early Eighties.

"He was hiding in South America and living off the proceeds of being a cocaine baron.

"And I read that in the paper, and all the cards fell into place and I saw how my little sniff of cocaine at a party had an absolute direct route to this f****** horrible man in South America.

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