Lifestyle | Helen Mirren Women Side Against Rape Victims: Mirren 'Jealous' female jurors would 'say she was asking for it' By Laurel Jorgensen Posted Nov 16, 2008 7:04 PM CST Copied British actress Helen Mirren attends Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani's Fall-Winter 2008/2009 fashion collection presented in Paris, Monday, June 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren caused a stir in London today by saying female jurors are unlikely to side with rape victims. “Women on a rape case would say she was asking for it,” Mirren told the London Times. “The only reason I can think of is that they’re sexually jealous.” One advocate for rape victims called the remark "destructive" and said it could dissuade women from reporting the crime. “She might have a point about women, but I don’t know what she is trying to prove by talking again about how cases are treated in the courts," the advocate told the Telegraph. Mirren, who says she has been "date-raped a couple of times," did not go to police because "it is a tricky area especially if there is no violence.” Polls show that up to a third of Britons believe rape victims are responsible for the crime if they get drunk or wear suggestive clothing. Read These Next Sienna proves herself to be a very, very good dog. Three hikers jumped into a waterfall and never resurfaced. America has lost a '60s teen idol. Millions of student loan borrowers could see their paychecks docked. Report an error