Actress Amanda Abbington has said she “would not have been able to live with myself” if she stayed silent about her Strictly Come Dancing experience.

The Sherlock actor said she thought “long and hard” before making a complaint to the BBC about the behaviour of former dance partner Giovanni Pernice due to the “backlash” she would receive.

Pernice, who rejected “any suggestion of abusive or threatening behaviour”, will not return to the show this year, and said in a statement on…