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

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Lilly Creightmore claimed David Walliams pressured her to share a bed with him

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.

She is one of a number of woman who spoke to journalists in a joint ITV News/Guardian investigation, which accuses Walliams of sexual misconduct.

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.

Ms Creightmore, who has waived her right to anonymity, told Newsnight on Tuesday night that Walliams told her she could move in with him and “could be his flatmate” just a month after they first met.

She 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."

Speaking 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.

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