Bridgerton star Genevieve Chenneour has opened up about a recent sizzling holiday romance with a woman during a work trip to Mykonos.

The actress, 28, who played Clara Livingston in the hit Netflix drama, said the experience has 'changed my understanding of sex'. 

Genevieve admitted: ‘It wasn’t planned, but it was something I’d thought about for most of my life. I’d kissed girls before. This time was different.’

Describing her experience in a post online, the former Team GB artistic swimmer added: ‘What happened changed my understanding of sex. It was sex with kindness.

‘For the first time, I understood why there can be such joy in bringing another person pleasure. To make a woman feel that way made me feel unexpectedly powerful.’

Despite her experience on the Greek island, Genevieve added that she feels ‘no need to define my sexuality’. 

It comes a year after Genevieve tussled with a mobile phone thief at a west London cafe.

She bravely fought off prolific Algerian thief Zacariah Boulares, 18, at a Joe & The Juice sandwich bar on Kensington High Street, during which a second man threatened to stab her.

Zacariah was locked up for 22 months in July for three counts of theft and common assault in a daylight attack on February 8 that left the actress concussed.

Scotland Yard officers also investigated a 19-year-old man but took no further action against him, the BBC reported.

Genevieve, an Olympic swimmer before embarking on an acting career, has since left London and moved back in with her mother as she no longer feels safe in the capital.

The actress said at the time that not knowing the identity of the second man involved continued to frighten her, adding: 'I can't understand why someone's walking around who has threatened to stab me.'

She said the psychological aftermath had been profound, leaving her 'severely agoraphobic' and unable to rely on public transport.

She has moved out of London to live with her mother and often stays in hotels when she needs to return to the capital for work and events.

Last August, she revealed that the psychological trauma had been long-lasting, with her unable to leave the house.

'And then if I did leave the house, I wanted to be with someone. But I felt like a burden. That's a really dark downward spiral that you can find yourself in,' she told the BBC.

In November, the actress took to Instagram to reveal she had been assaulted in the capital, where overall crime has soared by nearly a third over the past decade.

Genevieve said she was left 'shaken' after a man targeted her and hit her without warning near Oxford Circus - just minutes before she was due to walk into an audition.

It was the second time in a year that she had been the victim of violence in London - and the latest story of celebrities being targeted on its streets.

Speaking through tears in the video filmed in a quiet room above the audition space, Genevieve said it had triggered fresh panic attacks and left her struggling to compose herself ahead of the casting.

She said: 'Guys, literally five minutes before my audition, I was walking around the corner at Oxford Circus and this guy just looks at me, and targets me, and f***ing hits me.

'I'm like, against the wall, and I was right about to arrive for my audition. So I had to come in, and I'm trying to gather myself, but I'm so shaken.'

She continued: 'Obviously, I had that phone attack happen to me, and it's so nerve-racking for me being out in central London now.

'I'd just got my confidence up and was looking at moving back.'

The actress described her assailant as 'about 50 years old, 6ft 3in, Black, wearing a dark-coloured hat and black clothes'.

She added: 'I couldn't walk anywhere - he was just looking at me, and he just f***ing hit me. It was a full-grown man. I'm so shaken. I've got to try and prepare for this audition.

'They've really kindly given me this room above the audition room and said I can just take my time and gather myself.

'So I'm just going to take, like, half an hour, I think. I keep on having panic attacks.'

Genevieve is a qualified Amateur Boxing Association (ABA) boxer and has an extensive sporting background.

She fought off the thief because of her boxing experience, but she advised the public not to do the same.

She told Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard on This Morning at the time: 'I don't know if I would advise anybody else to do it.

'I think I have very quick reactions, thanks to having three brothers growing up and I'm an aviated carded boxer. I think it just was an instinct, I also do a lot of fight training for work and acting…

'I thought that was a normal reaction and I read all the comments [online] and realised, actually, a lot of people would just let them take the phone.'