Britain's Got Talent contestant chased out of India for portraying a rape victim while wearing knickers and nipple tassels during a performance as her alter-ego 'Swingerella'

A British woman who has appeared in Britain's Got Talent has been chased out of India for her on-stage performance portraying a rape victim wearing only underwear and nipple tassels.

Andrea Smith, 40, left organisers of an anti-domestic violence conference fuming following her controversial performance.

She was forced to flee the country after being told military police were hunting for her following her 'indecent' performance at the Women's Economic Forum, in New Delhi.

Andrea Smith (pictured performing the same act at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2015) says she was forced to flee India after her performance as a rape victim wearing knickers and nipple tassels caused offence

She said she was forced to flee the country after being told military police were hunting for her following her 'indecent' performance

The performer - who has appeared on Britain's Got Talent and Come Dine With Me - was performing at an anti-domestic violence conference in New Delhi. Here she is pictured during an identical performance last year

The show in India (not pictured) saw her lying on stage in fishnet tights and nipple covers before launching into a spoken-word performance about sexual abuse

Ms Smith has appeared on TV in Britain, including Come Dine With Me and Britain's Got Talent (pictured here backstage)

Ms Smith's act, 'Finding Your Voice Through Art', was designed to spread a message about domestic violence through her alter-ego 'Swingerella' on Thursday last week.

It saw her appear lying on stage in fishnet tights and burlesque nipple covers before she launches into an hour long spoken-word performance about sexual abuse.

But the next day the mother-of-two claims she had to dodge police waiting for her at the show and flee back to Britain after organisers threatened her with jail.

Ms Smith, from Erdington, Birmingham, said: 'My show is outrageous, but they had all my videos and would have known what to expect. I performed it and everyone in the audience loved it.

'The organiser wasn't there, but the next day someone told me he had refused to put a video of the performance on YouTube.

'Then the organiser called me over as I was leaving and said they could take my passport off me and put me in jail for a long time for what I did.

Ms Smith said she bought herself a ticket on the first flight back to Britain after she heard military police were looking for her

'I said: "Why are you body shaming me?" But he said what I did was illegal in India. He told me it was indecent and deeply offensive in their culture.

'He tore into me. He made me feel really ashamed of my body and my act. I was trying to give women a voice and here they were trying to suppress mine.

'I walked off and went home, but the next morning I got a tip off that I should leave the hotel because the military guards were going to arrest me. I was petrified.

'I went to the British Embassy, because apparently they were waiting for me at the show, but they told me if I'd broken the law I'd have to face it.

'So I got my friend to get me a lift straight to the airport and paid £800 for the quickest flight back.

'Being threatened with jail and hunted by armed police is one of the most terrifying things that has ever happened to me. It was very scary.'

Ms Smith, who auditioned for Britain's Got Talent in February last year and has also appeared on Come Dine With Me, says she suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from a past abusive relationship.

Now she draws on her experiences to perform across the UK and has appeared previously at the Edinburgh Festival.

The part-time teacher added: 'I think my performance was a bit of a culture shock to them, but it is about domestic abuse.

'Although I was there mainly to talk as Andrea Smith from Goddess UK, they knew I would also use Swingerella and would have seen my act online.

'Swingerella's Dark Fairy Tale is showing how when we are abused we pretend to be OK when we are not. It has been described as burlesque but it's not indecent.

The part time teacher says her performance was likely a 'culture shock' to her audience in India, but it was about domestic abuse

Here Ms Smith is pictured in the clothes she was wearing when she performed the controversial show

The 40-year-old was performing as her alter ego 'Swingerella', which she has performed in Edinburgh and on Britain's Got Talent on previous occasions

'I don't think they had a problem with me performing in nipple tassels, they knew that was coming. Really they were trying to silence me about my outspoken views.

'I was asking why there were women getting paid next to nothing to clean the toilets at a Women's Economic Forum and raising transgender issues.

'Although it was in India, there were women from 75 countries there and I thought it was an open forum to talk about these issues.

'But the organiser, whose wife was dressed like Barbie, seemed to want women to talk and behave a certain way - which I didn't.

'I just think it's such a shame, because I was meant to be helping raise awareness of victims of acid attacks in the country until May 30, but now I can't do that.

'There are bigger issues here than a middle age woman in tights on stage.'

No-one from the Women's Economic Forum in New Delhi was available for comment today.