A former model who claims David Walliams groomed her as a teenager has said she is 'angry' at his behaviour after she felt 'pressured to share a bed with him'.
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Lilly Creightmore has revealed she met the actor – who has been accused by multiple women of sexual misconduct and abusing his power - when she was aged 18.
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She said she had a troubled home life so stayed with him in his flat, where she slept on the sofa – but claimed Walliams, then 32, asked her to stay in his bed every night.
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Ms Creightmore alleged that a month after they first met, rising star Walliams told her she 'could move in with him and basically that I could be his flatmate'.
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She told the BBC's Newsnight: 'I felt instantly pressured to share a bed with him.
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In the evenings, he would sort of come and sit with me and stroke my leg.
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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?"
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I had an inner strength like, "no I'm not attracted to you in that way"...
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I felt I was being manipulated.'
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Ms Creightmore continued: '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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They're abusing their positions, using young people and abusing young people, and people of any age of course.
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There are too many men in power still, that are doing this and they need to go.'
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Lilly Creightmore told the BBC's Newsnight that she is 'angry' at David Walliams's behaviour
David Walliams with an arm around Lilly Creightmore at a quiz night in Leicester Square in 2003
Lawyers for Walliams have said he saw Ms Creightmore as a close friend and is mortified that she feels he was grooming her, which he denies.
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Walliams also denies targeting her because she was young and vulnerable and insists he did not say or do anything inappropriate.
Explaining how they first met, Ms Creightmore said
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'came into my periphery' in 2002, when she would see him out in London.
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She claimed that Walliams would 'make a point of letting me know that he'd seen me, so he would sort of just stare at me, which I found quite peculiar'.
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He had also seen her when she was on Channel 4 reality TV show Model Behaviour aged 16, according to the allegations first reported by ITV News and the Guardian.
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Ms Creightmore said that she then went to a live recording of his BBC comedy show Little Britain with her mother when the first series was being produced for Radio 4.
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She continued: 'Again, throughout the recording he was sort of gawping at me every time he walked past like properly gawping, which was very odd.
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But yeah found it pretty weird.
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And then a few months after that, I received a letter from him at my mother's address.
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She explained that the letter was from Walliams, who had seen her at an Agent Provocateur lingerie event.
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Lilly Creightmore told Victoria Derbyshire that she felt 'pressured to share a bed' with Walliams
The letter said: 'When I saw you at the Little Britain recording, I was enraptured. Then when I saw you in Agent Provocateur, I so wanted to speak to you, but amongst all the frilly knickers I couldn't find the words.
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I'd love to take you out sometime.
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I know we've never spoken but you seem lovely.
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Speaking about the letter, Ms Creightmore said she was 'just really confused, weirded out, but also a little bit like, yeah, being a big comedy fan a bit like surprised and... a little bit excited by it, maybe'.
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She explained that she then agreed to meet him for dinner but told him she was 'seeing someone and wasn't interested in seeing him in a romantic way'.
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Over the next few months, Ms Creightmore said Walliams invited her to events and was 'kind of sort of trying to impress me with his other comedy friends because he knew I appreciated a lot of these people'.
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Walliams then allegedly told her that she 'could move in with him - basically that I could be his flatmate that he had a spare room'.
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Ms Creightmore – who was still 18 at this point - continued: 'Of course when I turned up he didn't have a spare bed.
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I felt instantly pressured to share a bed with him.
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That's where I am, I'm sleeping.'
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She said that she felt pressured to have sex with Walliams, but turned down his requests.
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Ms Creightmore continued: 'Of course, when he didn't get what he wanted over the course of I think it was a week that I was there, he started to become very moody and rude and cold.
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Lilly Creightmore speaks to ITV, which first reported the allegations along with the Guardian
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And I just, yeah, obviously didn't feel welcome and feel like it was a safe situation anymore.
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So I went to stay on another friend's floor, I think.
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She added: 'I think because of the many other allegations which I've been hearing about for some years now and this pattern of behaviour it just feels like my story is one piece of the puzzle of a much bigger picture of extremely inappropriate and predatorial behaviour.'
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Ms Creightmore spoke out after former Britain's Got Talent judge Walliams, now 55, was named as part of an investigation by the Guardian and ITV News.
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He had tried to obtain an injunction to prevent the reporting of allegations against him.
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