Danniella Westbrook has spoken out about her encounter with the vile Jimmy Savile.
The former EastEnders actress said she was abused as a child between the ages of nine and 14, and would often face her tormentor later in life.
In her candid confession, the 41-year-old said Savile once invited her to sit next to him during an appearance on an Irish talk show, but she refused.
In a new interview, she said she kept the revelation secret because she feared her life would be over if she revealed what had happened. When asked if she had ever met her tormentor as an adult, Ms Westbrook replied: “Yes.” I was supposed to do a show in Belfast, a talk show, and they wanted to put me next to Jimmy Savile.
“He said something like, ‘Come here, Daniella, you know me, sit next to me’. And I said, ‘If I was about to die I wouldn’t even sit next to you’.
He was one of them,” she said on The Lewis Nichols Show. Former BBC presenter Savile was only exposed as a paedophile, rapist and serial offender after his death.
The true extent of his horrific crimes against teenagers, young women, young girls, boys, the sick, the disabled and even the dead was recently retold in the BBC series The Reckoning, starring actor Steve Coogan. Taking over the responsibility of a disgraced sex offender.
Elsewhere, Saville Louis Cerrault previously revealed that he had several girlfriends throughout his life. However, in 2001, just a year after his sensational documentary was broadcast, he met two women in their 40s, one of whom confessed to having been friends with Savile when she was just 15 years old.
At the notorious Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, a nurse testified in an autopsy report that the submitter had boasted that he had “tampered” with some of the bodies in the morgue. An investigation found that his interest in the dead “was not within acceptable limits”.
Mr Savile died in October 2011, aged 84. Throughout his life, Savile faced several allegations of sexual abuse. The first known case was opened in 1958, but there was not enough evidence.
After his death, allegations dating back to 1963 were raised, and an official investigation, Operation Yew Tree, was launched in 2012. In October that year, the Metropolitan Police announced that they had 400 inquiries underway, with around 450 suspected victims.
