‘I Wanted To Do Them Justice'

Lisa Riley, 40, on why her role in new TV drama, Three Girls – which tells the horrific story of sex abuse in Rochdale – was so important to her...

- Jennifer Kyte

Hi Lisa! So why Three Girls? 

It was the truth of the topic, I’ve had so many scripts that I’ve been sent and you know me, I won’t do jobs just for the sake of it. The impact that we had when we did Fat Friends, I wanted that again.

This is such a harrowing storyline, it must have been tough to film...