Piper praised for confessing animal throwing shame
Actress/singer Billie Piper has been praised by animal rights campaigners after she confessed her shame at abusing stray pets when she was a child.
The Secret Diary of a Call Girl star has admitted she would target animals in streets near her childhood home in England and "launch" them through the air for entertainment.
She's confessed she's wracked by guilt over her behaviour and would
dearly love to change the past - but bosses at People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have praised her honesty and
have asked her to work alongside them in a new campaign.
Asked what she would most like to change about her past, Piper told
the Guardian Weekend magazine, "My throwing animals phase. I used
to pick up animals on the street and launch them as far as I
could."
A PETA spokeswoman tells WENN, "PETA is very happy to hear that Ms
Piper regrets the casual cruelty that she perpetrated against
animals when she was a child - that's the difference between a
person with the real potential to be kind and someone who denies
wrongdoing, takes pleasure in it and escalates the damaging
behaviour.
"Psychiatrists and sociologists can attest that in cases where
animal abusers do not regret their ill deeds, they often 'graduate'
to committing violent acts against human beings - unless someone
intervenes to change their path... We will be asking Ms Piper to be
a spokesperson for our campaign to sensitise children, parents and
teachers to the need to develop compassion in childhood through
humane-education training in schools and at home."