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'I am angry... It needs to stop', says Lilly Creightmore who claims David Walliams "groomed" her as a teen

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00:00What's the overarching message that you want to get across to people as you speak to us now?
00:07I am angry. I'm suppressing it well.
00:09But just that this culture of older men in positions of power needs to go, needs to stop abusing their
00:18positions,
00:20using young people and abusing young people and people of any age, of course.
00:27But, yeah, I just, you know, there are too many men in power still that are doing this and they
00:34need to go.
00:35Well, we're very grateful. Thank you very much, Lily, for talking to us.
00:40We really appreciate it. Thank you for your time.
00:43And The Guardian say David Walliams wrote to them giving this statement.
00:47Looking back, I realise that at times I behave thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with.
00:53I realise I didn't always take people's feelings properly into account.
00:56That is something I regret.
00:58And whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous,
01:02abusing that power is something else entirely, and it's something that I never did.
01:06He added, I am not a sexual predator.
01:08I have not broken the law.
01:10But I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt
01:15or anger towards me.
01:16So, I'll be right model as some of the women I am.
01:18So I hele when I am hearing.
01:20I'm in the meeting.
01:21You're probablyyn.

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