Woman who alleges David Walliams 'groomed' her as teenager says she's 'angry' at his behaviour

Woman who alleges David Walliams 'groomed' her as teenager says she's 'angry' at his behaviour

One of the women who has alleged that David Walliams “groomed” her as a teenager has told BBC Newsnight that she is “angry” at his behaviour. Lilly Creightmore has claimed that she was just 18 when Walliams first contacted her after he saw her at a show inside an Agent Provocateur store in London.Walliams denies all the allegations. In a handwritten letter which Walliams allegedly sent to Ms Creightmore, he wrote that he was “enraptured” with her when he saw her at a Little Britain recording.They agreed to meet, during which Ms Creightmore claims she told Walliams that she was seeing someone and wasn't interested in seeing him in a romantic way. Lilly Creightmore (right) speaking to Victoria Derbyshire on Newsnight on Tuesday evening BBC NewsnightShe said: "I felt instantly pressured to share a bed with him. In the evenings, he would sort of come and sit with me and stroke my leg, and one night I think he put his head in my lap and sort of be like, 'are you sure you don't want to come and sleep in my bed with me?' “I had an inner strength like, 'no I'm not attracted to you in that way'... I felt I was being manipulated."A letter David Walliams sent to LillyBBC NewsnightSpeaking to Victoria Derbyshire, she added: "I am angry, I'm suppressing it well, but just that this culture of older men in positions of power needs to go, needs to stop. “They're abusing their positions, using young people and abusing young people, and people of any age of course. “There were too many men in power still, that are doing this and they need to go."David Walliams pictured with an 18-year-old Lilly Creightmore at a charity event in London in 2003Scott Myers/ShutterstockWalliams has said that he did not act inappropriately, nor did he "target" Ms Creightmore because she was "vulnerable" or "young".He says he believed their friendship was a "special one" and feels "devastated" by her account. He also denies that offers of help or gifts were attempts to groom, manipulate or coerce her into sleeping with him. David Walliams denies claims of sexual misconduct in the ITV News/Guardian investigation PA ArchiveIn a statement, Walliams said: “I realise I did not always take people’s feelings properly into account. That is something I regret. And whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous, abusing that power is something else entirely and it is something that I never did.”Read MoreHe added: “I am not a sexual predator. I have not broken the law, but I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.”

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