Lucy Beaumont has revealed she was a whistleblower on David Walliams after allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct made against the comedian were revealed on Tuesday.
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The former Little Britain star has been unmasked as the celebrity who fought for a court order to suppress allegations that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl and preyed on multiple teenage girls while 'abusing his status' to exploit teens.
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On Tuesday, a three-year joint investigation by ITV News and The Guardian revealed a series of allegations dating back to 2003, with some accusers being as young as 15.
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David denies all the allegations.
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Lucy, who starred in the first series of Celebrity Traitors last year, has now revealed she gave information to The Guardian after being 'really worried' one of his alleged victims would 'take her own life'.
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Lucy was working on a show and a young person came to her and shared the information that they had worked on a show with Walliams and their job was to take 'young girls' to his dressing room.
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They believed that the girls were over 16.
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Speaking on Sky News, Lucy explained: 'I did as much as I could do privately and whenever I've heard a rumour about anyone, I've done everything I can.
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There's only so much you can do.
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Nothing seems to be illegal, but I was really worried, and I was one of the whistleblowers.
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I was one of the people to let the Guardian know.'
Lucy Beaumont has revealed she was a whistleblower on David Walliams investigation as she says she was 'really worried' one of his alleged victims would 'take her own life'
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On Tuesday, a three-year joint investigation by ITV News and The Guardian revealed a series of allegations dating back to 2003, with some accusers being as young as 15.
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He denies all the allegations
Addressing the nature of the TV industry she continued: 'There's no HR department in TV.
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There's no social services that you deal with, and it's partly because the industry is very well managed.
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These are very rare things to happen.
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Everyone you work with is lovely, and these things slip through the net because there hasn't been a process that you can deal with.
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People have got agents, but the agents work for the talent.
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People move around a lot in their positions.
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You know, someone might be an exec one week, and then the next week they're not, they're working with someone else.
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So that it does need it does need looking at.
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Lucy confirmed she hasn't worked with Walliams herself and hasn't witnessed any of the allegations first hand.
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She confirmed: 'No, no, I haven't.
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I've never worked with him.
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I haven't witnessed anything, and that that's the point, isn't it?
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And obviously, if there's false allegations against someone, you don't want to be party to that.
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'I was worried that these girls were young.
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What I did was I then tried to contact some of them to check and to ask if they were all right.
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'Now I'd been privy to this information, because I used to work in a school, if a pupil came to tell me something that they'd witnessed, you have a duty of care to do that.
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And I think that's probably never left me.'
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Lucy got in contact with one of the alleged victims and offered her legal help.
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However, the girl denied her offer of help after explaining she had been silenced.
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Lucy explained: 'So I contacted one of the young girls, and she was in a really bad way.
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I was really worried she was going to take her own life because of it, she had put stuff online, and there was evidence that she was in a dressing room.
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I offered to pay legal fees to try and get her some protection, and I'm not saying necessarily that what she said was true, but I wanted to help her because it was a world that she was really out of a depth with, and she, I believe, had signed an NDA.
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And this is the issue with some of these NDAs, the NDA wasn't just about she couldn't talk to the media, I'm nearly crying telling you this, it was that she couldn't talk to family or friends or a therapist.
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And the reason I'm speaking out about this when I know everyone I know knows this, and I don't hear anybody talking about it.
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And honestly, I don't think I'll work in telly again.
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I honestly don't.
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The reason you high-profile people are not saying anything is because they lose work because you're seen as that you might be a trouble causer, and it does need to be said that there needs to be some intervention.'
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Lucy confirmed the girl declined her offer of support.
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