I have just added screen captures of a documentary Anastasia was part of in 2006 to the gallery. Watching the whole thing was rather strange. The British channel SKY produced three 40 minute documentary’s. The whole series is called “Super fakes”. The one Anastasia is in is called: “The Woman Who Cried Rape”.

The episode starts with hard facts: It is estimated that 130,000 women are raped in the UK every year. False rape cases are very rare. Last year, only nine women were charged for making false rape allegations. This film follows one of those rare cases.

The stoy of Merete Underwood is told. Unhappy in her marriage she decides to abandon her husband of two years and young son one evening. At the pub she tells her husband she is going to the bathroom one last time before leaving together but she takes her cigarettes and goes out for a smoke instead. Toby Underwood won’t see his wife for another sixteen hours.

Merete is a havy drinker, she’s disappeared before but when she’s still not home by five a.m. the next day Toby calls the police.
Meanwhile Merete has met a man in another bar and has gone home with him. Panicking when she realizes her disappearance has been reported to the local police Merete fabricates a story about being rushed into a car and being held in a B&B against her will where two men raped her.

With the police investigating her claims Merete’s story begins to fall apart. She is eventually charged with perverting the course of justice and wasting police time. Merete Underwood served half of her 12 month sentence in jail. She divorced her husband and returned to her native Norway.

The documentary features interview clips with the real life Merete Underwood as well as reconstructions of what she claims happened. In these reconstructions Anastasia plays Underwood.