Joan Collins recalls horror of being raped by hubby-to-be at 17

Joan Collins has shared share her memory of being raped by her then future husband Maxwell Reed at the age of 17 in a new documentary.

The documentary is created by former Miss World winner Linor Abargil, who was stabbed and sexually assaulted six weeks before the competition, the independent reported.

Collins said in the documentary that one a date with Reed, he told her that he needed to take a bath and left her with a rum and coke and some books to read.

The 81-year-old said that the next thing she knew, she was out flat on the sofa in that living room and he was raping her and what he had given her was a drug in her drink.

Out of shame and guilt, Collins continued her relationship with Reed and eventually agreed to marry him and even remembers crying on the evening prior to her wedding, but her father told her that people had already been invited so it was best to go through with it.