Dame Judi Dench has said she once posted a dead rat through a neighbour’s letterbox when she was a child. Both outlets report that the 91-year-old actress discussed the incident as a personal confession, describing it as a “terrible story.” The accounts agree that she framed the act as something she did in her youth and presented it as an anecdote from earlier life rather than a current event. Neither report provides additional context such as why it happened, where it occurred, or whether the neighbour discovered it at the time. The story is presented simply as an admission by Dench and is not linked in the reports to any formal investigation, legal action, or public response beyond her own remarks. The two sources therefore concur on the core details: Dench recounts posting a dead rat through a neighbour’s letterbox and characterizes the experience negatively.