Jodie, 36, was filming a new documentary in Jaywick when she and the crew were pelted with eggs and coins, leaving them with no choice but to leave the area.
Jaywick is reportedly the most deprived area in the UK and was recently the subject of Channel 5 documentary Benefits by the Sea – and many residents were not happy with the coverage their town received.
However Jodie has insisted it is not her intention to make them look bad. She tweeted: “People of Jaywick: do not tar me or my film crew with the same brush as others.
“I pride myself on making honest, fair, decent documentaries. I know you have been screwed over by other film crews, but I do not screw people over. I have been screwed over myself, so I’m with you.”
Jodie – who recently married personal trainer James Placido in secret – added that she’d intended to give the town a voice, not take theirs away.
She wrote: “You will only make yourself look bad if you are vile to me without giving me a chance to talk to you.”
Residents of Jaywick were left angry by the Channel 5 show, which labelled the Brooklands estate there the ‘closest thing this country has to a shanty town’.