Dame Helen Mirren is in trouble again after claiming that “sexual jealousy” means female jurors are less likely to sympathize with victims of rape in this weekend’s edition of The Sunday Times.

The 63-year-old Oscar-winning actress believes that lawyers defending a man on trial for rape would prefer to have more women on the jury because women are more likely to believe the victim “was asking for it.”

The comments come just a few months after the Inkheart star was publicly chastised for controversial statements she made to GQ Magazine about being a victim of date-rape when she was in her 20s.

“In a rape case the courts - in defense of a man - would select as many women as they could for the jury, because women go against women. Whether in a deep-seated animalistic way, going back billions of years, or from a sense of tribal jealousy or just antagonism, I don’t know.”

She added, “But other women on a rape case would say she was asking for it. The only reason I can think of is that they’re sexually jealous.”